diff --git a/local/recipes/libs/mesa/recipe.toml b/local/recipes/libs/mesa/recipe.toml
index 6495fb1600..7e5f1b311c 100644
--- a/local/recipes/libs/mesa/recipe.toml
+++ b/local/recipes/libs/mesa/recipe.toml
@@ -46,6 +46,10 @@ dependencies = [
     "libwayland",
     "linux-kpi",
     "llvm21",
+    # Native host shader-precompile tools (mesa_clc, vtn_bindgen2) consumed via
+    # -Dmesa-clc=system -Dprecomp-compiler=system (the cross build can't run
+    # Redox target tools on the host).
+    "mesa-clc",
     # with_clc also links clang's C++ libraries: Mesa resolves clang via
     # cpp.find_library('clang-cpp', dirs: llvm-config --libdir), and the
     # llvm-config wrapper rewrites libdir to Mesa's target sysroot/lib. So the
@@ -118,7 +122,17 @@ else
     COOKBOOK_MESON_FLAGS+=(-Dshared-llvm=disabled)
 fi
 
+# The build-time shader compilers (mesa_clc, vtn_bindgen2) cannot be run as
+# Redox target binaries on the host, so we consume the natively-built host tools
+# from the mesa-clc dependency (staged into usr/bin) via -Dmesa-clc=system
+# -Dprecomp-compiler=system. Put them on PATH so meson's find_program(native)
+# resolves them. This also flips with_clc to false, so the cross build no longer
+# links the in-tree CLC infra (LLVMSPIRVLib/SPIRV-Tools/clang).
+export PATH="${COOKBOOK_SYSROOT}/usr/bin:${PATH}"
+
 cookbook_meson \
+    -Dmesa-clc=system \
+    -Dprecomp-compiler=system \
     -Ddri-drivers-path=/usr/lib/dri \
     -Degl=enabled \
     -Dgbm=enabled \