diff --git a/main/herbstluftwm/spkgbuild b/main/herbstluftwm/spkgbuild
index 4fed42072..9e3a99c25 100644
--- a/main/herbstluftwm/spkgbuild
+++ b/main/herbstluftwm/spkgbuild
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # description	: Manual tiling window manager for X
-# depends	: libxinerama libx11 libxext libxrandr cmake libxft libxfixes
+# depends	: cmake ninja libxinerama libx11 libxext libxrandr libxft libxfixes
 
 name=herbstluftwm
 version=0.9.5
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ release=1
 source="https://herbstluftwm.org/tarballs/herbstluftwm-$version.tar.gz"
 
 build() {
-	cmake  -S $name-$version -B build \
+	cmake  -S $name-$version -B build -G Ninja \
 	        -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
 		-DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=lib \
 		-DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBEXECDIR=lib \