diff --git a/local/recipes/qt/qtwayland/recipe.toml b/local/recipes/qt/qtwayland/recipe.toml
index 9b96e6bc87..5f4c682327 100644
--- a/local/recipes/qt/qtwayland/recipe.toml
+++ b/local/recipes/qt/qtwayland/recipe.toml
@@ -14,6 +14,11 @@ dependencies = [
     "libwayland",
     "wayland-protocols",
     "qtbase",
+    # qtwayland's CMakeLists requires Qt6Qml (QtWaylandCompositor QML integration)
+    # provided by qtdeclarative. Without this dep cookbook may cook qtwayland in
+    # parallel with qtdeclarative and configure fails: "Could not find a package
+    # configuration file provided by Qt6Qml".
+    "qtdeclarative",
 ]
 script = """
 DYNAMIC_INIT