diff --git a/package/imagemagick/Config.in.host b/package/imagemagick/Config.in.host
index 56d45df537..bbe23baa6f 100644
--- a/package/imagemagick/Config.in.host
+++ b/package/imagemagick/Config.in.host
@@ -11,3 +11,16 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_IMAGEMAGICK
 	  Bézier curves.
 
 	  http://www.imagemagick.org/
+
+if BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_IMAGEMAGICK
+
+config BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_IMAGEMAGICK_SVG
+	bool "SVG support"
+	help
+	  Say 'y' here is you need ImageMagick tools (like convert)
+	  to support SVG.
+
+	  This is not enabled by default, as it brings quite a few
+	  extra dependencies, and thus extra build time.
+
+endif
diff --git a/package/imagemagick/imagemagick.mk b/package/imagemagick/imagemagick.mk
index 5ea79bed49..be350e88ed 100644
--- a/package/imagemagick/imagemagick.mk
+++ b/package/imagemagick/imagemagick.mk
@@ -168,15 +168,10 @@ HOST_IMAGEMAGICK_CONF_OPTS = \
 	--without-x \
 	--without-bzlib \
 	--without-fftw \
-	--without-fontconfig \
-	--without-freetype \
 	--without-lcms \
 	--without-lzma \
-	--without-pango \
-	--without-rsvg \
 	--without-tiff \
 	--without-webp \
-	--without-xml \
 	--with-jpeg \
 	--with-png \
 	--with-zlib
@@ -187,5 +182,28 @@ HOST_IMAGEMAGICK_DEPENDENCIES = \
 	host-pkgconf \
 	host-zlib
 
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_IMAGEMAGICK_SVG),y)
+HOST_IMAGEMAGICK_DEPENDENCIES += \
+	host-fontconfig \
+	host-freetype \
+	host-librsvg \
+	host-libxml2 \
+	host-pango
+HOST_IMAGEMAGICK_CONF_ENV += ac_cv_path_xml2_config=$(HOST_DIR)/bin/xml2-config
+HOST_IMAGEMAGICK_CONF_OPTS += \
+	--with-fontconfig \
+	--with-freetype \
+	--with-pango \
+	--with-rsvg \
+	--with-xml
+else
+HOST_IMAGEMAGICK_CONF_OPTS += \
+	--without-fontconfig \
+	--without-freetype \
+	--without-pango \
+	--without-rsvg \
+	--without-xml
+endif
+
 $(eval $(autotools-package))
 $(eval $(host-autotools-package))