diff --git a/packages/addons/addon-depends/pcre2/package.mk b/packages/addons/addon-depends/pcre2/package.mk
index afa23bf0e1..4acf0bd77a 100644
--- a/packages/addons/addon-depends/pcre2/package.mk
+++ b/packages/addons/addon-depends/pcre2/package.mk
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ PKG_SHA256="14e4b83c4783933dc17e964318e6324f7cae1bc75d8f3c79bc6969f00c159d68"
 PKG_LICENSE="BSD"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.pcre.org/"
 PKG_URL="https://github.com/PhilipHazel/pcre2/releases/download/pcre2-${PKG_VERSION}/pcre2-${PKG_VERSION}.tar.bz2"
+PKG_DEPENDS_HOST="toolchain:host"
 PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain"
 PKG_LONGDESC="A set of functions that implement regular expression pattern matching using the same syntax."
 PKG_TOOLCHAIN="cmake"