diff --git a/package/exempi/Config.in b/package/exempi/Config.in
index c9af219a20..eba12a2a3c 100644
--- a/package/exempi/Config.in
+++ b/package/exempi/Config.in
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_EXEMPI
 	depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS # dlfcn.h
 	depends on BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS
+	depends on BR2_USE_WCHAR
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_EXPAT
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBICONV if !BR2_ENABLE_LOCALE
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_ZLIB
@@ -12,5 +13,6 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_EXEMPI
 
 	  http://libopenraw.freedesktop.org/wiki/Exempi
 
-comment "exempi needs a toolchain w/ C++, dynamic library, threads"
-	depends on BR2_STATIC_LIBS || !BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP || !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS
+comment "exempi needs a toolchain w/ C++, dynamic library, threads, wchar"
+	depends on BR2_STATIC_LIBS || !BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP || \
+		!BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS || !BR2_USE_WCHAR