diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/st/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/st/default.nix
index 704262da5bf5..9b3dc84bcbd5 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/st/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/st/default.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, writeText, libX11, ncurses, libXext, libXft
-, fontconfig, conf ? null, patches ? []}:
+, fontconfig, conf ? null, patches ? [], extraLibs ? []}:
 
 with stdenv.lib;
 
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   configFile = optionalString (conf!=null) (writeText "config.def.h" conf);
   preBuild = optionalString (conf!=null) "cp ${configFile} config.def.h";
 
-  buildInputs = [ pkgconfig libX11 ncurses libXext libXft fontconfig ];
+  buildInputs = [ pkgconfig libX11 ncurses libXext libXft fontconfig ] ++ extraLibs;
 
   installPhase = ''
     TERMINFO=$out/share/terminfo make install PREFIX=$out
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 8cdd33df7edc..f88706b61352 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -15718,6 +15718,7 @@ with pkgs;
   st = callPackage ../applications/misc/st {
     conf = config.st.conf or null;
     patches = config.st.patches or null;
+    extraLibs = config.st.extraLibs or [];
   };
 
   st-wayland = callPackage ../applications/misc/st/wayland.nix {