diff --git a/packages/addons/service/multimedia/boblightd/patches/boblightd-2.0.5-getopt-includes.patch b/packages/addons/service/multimedia/boblightd/patches/boblightd-2.0.5-getopt-includes.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..aacca116cc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/addons/service/multimedia/boblightd/patches/boblightd-2.0.5-getopt-includes.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+diff --git a/src/clients/flagmanager.cpp b/src/clients/flagmanager.cpp
+index d9f3cbf..82eb978 100644
+--- a/src/clients/flagmanager.cpp
++++ b/src/clients/flagmanager.cpp
+@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@
+ #define BOBLIGHT_DLOPEN_EXTERN
+ #include "../lib/boblight.h"
+ 
++#include <unistd.h>
++
+ using namespace std;
+ 
+ //very simple, store a copy of argc and argv