diff --git a/main/uchardet/spkgbuild b/main/uchardet/spkgbuild
index 25b4ae067..060a86725 100644
--- a/main/uchardet/spkgbuild
+++ b/main/uchardet/spkgbuild
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # description	: uchardet is an encoding detector library, which takes a sequence of bytes in an unknown character encoding without any additional information, and attempts to determine the encoding of the text. Returned encoding names are iconv-compatible.
 # homepage	: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/uchardet/
-# depends	: cmake
+# depends	: cmake ninja
 
 name=uchardet
 version=0.0.8
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ release=1
 source="https://github.com/freedesktop/uchardet/archive/v$version/$name-$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 \