diff --git a/pkgs/applications/emulators/nuked-md/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/emulators/nuked-md/default.nix
index 883d62b89832..3f42ce6d2d07 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/emulators/nuked-md/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/emulators/nuked-md/default.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 { stdenv
 , lib
 , fetchFromGitHub
+, fetchpatch
 , gitUpdater
 , cmake
 , SDL2
@@ -17,6 +18,15 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
     hash = "sha256-Pe+TSu9FBUhxtACq+6jMbrUxiwKLOJgQbEcmUrcrjMs=";
   };
 
+  patches = [
+    # Remove when version > 1.2
+    (fetchpatch {
+      name = "0001-nuked-md-Fix-missing-string-h-include.patch";
+      url = "https://github.com/nukeykt/Nuked-MD/commit/b875cd79104217af581131b22f4111409273617a.patch";
+      hash = "sha256-Mx3jmrlBbxdz3ZBr4XhmBk1S04xB0uaxzPXpXSlipV4=";
+    })
+  ];
+
   # Interesting detail about our SDL2 packaging:
   # Because we build it with the configure script instead of CMake, we ship sdl2-config.cmake instead of SDL2Config.cmake
   # The former doesn't set SDL2_FOUND while the latter does (like CMake config scripts should), which causes this issue: