diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/slic3r/prusa3d.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/slic3r/prusa3d.nix
index 445d996f605..2f5486a0f4b 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/slic3r/prusa3d.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/slic3r/prusa3d.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, makeWrapper, which, cmake, perl, perlPackages,
+{ stdenv, lib, fetchFromGitHub, makeWrapper, which, cmake, perl, perlPackages,
   boost, tbb, wxGTK30, pkgconfig, gtk3, fetchurl, gtk2, libGLU,
   glew, eigen, curl, gtest, nlopt, pcre, xorg }:
 let
@@ -98,6 +98,10 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     # seems to be the easiest way.
     sed -i "s|\''${PERL_VENDORARCH}|$out/lib/slic3r-prusa3d|g" xs/CMakeLists.txt
     sed -i "s|\''${PERL_VENDORLIB}|$out/lib/slic3r-prusa3d|g" xs/CMakeLists.txt
+  '' + lib.optionalString (lib.versionOlder "2.5" nlopt.version) ''
+    # Since version 2.5.0 of nlopt we need to link to libnlopt, as libnlopt_cxx
+    # now seems to be integrated into the main lib.
+    sed -i 's|nlopt_cxx|nlopt|g' xs/src/libnest2d/cmake_modules/FindNLopt.cmake
   '';
 
   postInstall = ''