diff --git a/package/x11r7/xapp_mkfontscale/Config.in b/package/x11r7/xapp_mkfontscale/Config.in
index 540dd455ff..0cfee6ad05 100644
--- a/package/x11r7/xapp_mkfontscale/Config.in
+++ b/package/x11r7/xapp_mkfontscale/Config.in
@@ -3,5 +3,7 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_XAPP_MKFONTSCALE
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_FREETYPE
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_XLIB_LIBX11
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_XLIB_LIBFONTENC
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_XPROTO_XPROTO
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_ZLIB
 	help
 	  create an index of scalable font files for X