diff --git a/pkgs/applications/audio/pianobooster/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/audio/pianobooster/default.nix
index d013a26277e..53afcdd2306 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/audio/pianobooster/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/audio/pianobooster/default.nix
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation  rec {
   preConfigure = "cd src";
 
   buildInputs = [ alsaLib cmake makeWrapper libGLU_combined qt4 ];
+  NIX_LDFLAGS = [ "-lGL" "-lpthread" ];
 
   postInstall = ''
     wrapProgram $out/bin/pianobooster \