diff --git a/src/frontend/qt_sdl/CMakeLists.txt b/src/frontend/qt_sdl/CMakeLists.txt
index 2f76581aee..86577ff36d 100644
--- a/src/frontend/qt_sdl/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/frontend/qt_sdl/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ set(CMAKE_AUTORCC ON)
 
 find_package(Threads REQUIRED)
 find_package(PkgConfig REQUIRED)
+find_package(Lua51 REQUIRED) 
 
 if (BUILD_STATIC)
     list(APPEND PKG_CONFIG_EXECUTABLE "--static")