diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/slic3r/boost-compile-error.patch b/pkgs/applications/misc/slic3r/boost-compile-error.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4dbdb85f743
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/slic3r/boost-compile-error.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff --git a/xs/src/libslic3r/GCodeSender.hpp b/xs/src/libslic3r/GCodeSender.hpp
+index cc0b2983..0f39f5a3 100644
+--- a/xs/src/libslic3r/GCodeSender.hpp
++++ b/xs/src/libslic3r/GCodeSender.hpp
+@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
+ #include <boost/asio.hpp>
+ #include <boost/bind.hpp>
+ #include <boost/thread.hpp>
++#include <boost/core/noncopyable.hpp>
+ 
+ namespace Slic3r {
+ 
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/slic3r/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/slic3r/default.nix
index cf9e93b87b3..8dbd0cd5776 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/slic3r/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/slic3r/default.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchgit, perl, makeWrapper, makeDesktopItem
-, which, perlPackages, boost
+{ lib, stdenv, fetchgit, perl, makeWrapper
+, makeDesktopItem, which, perlPackages, boost
 }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
@@ -40,6 +40,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sed -i 's|"/usr/include/asm-generic/ioctls.h"|<asm-generic/ioctls.h>|g' xs/src/libslic3r/GCodeSender.cpp
   '';
 
+  # note the boost-compile-error is fixed in
+  # https://github.com/slic3r/Slic3r/commit/90f108ae8e7a4315f82e317f2141733418d86a68
+  # this patch can be probably be removed in the next version after 1.3.0
+  patches = lib.optional (lib.versionAtLeast boost.version "1.56.0") ./boost-compile-error.patch;
+
   buildPhase = ''
     export SLIC3R_NO_AUTO=true
     export LD=$CXX