diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/mono/generic.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/mono/generic.nix
index e4d99dcec95..c510f372666 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/mono/generic.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/mono/generic.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl, bison, pkgconfig, glib, gettext, perl, libgdiplus, libX11, callPackage, ncurses, zlib, withLLVM ? false, cacert, Foundation, libobjc, python, version, sha256, autoconf, libtool, automake, cmake, which
+, gnumake42
 , enableParallelBuilding ? true
 , srcArchiveSuffix ? "tar.bz2"
 , extraPatches ? []
@@ -16,6 +17,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     url = "https://download.mono-project.com/sources/mono/${pname}-${version}.${srcArchiveSuffix}";
   };
 
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ gnumake42 ];
   buildInputs =
     [ bison pkgconfig glib gettext perl libgdiplus libX11 ncurses zlib python autoconf libtool automake cmake which
     ]