diff --git a/recipes/ffmpeg/recipe.sh b/recipes/ffmpeg/recipe.sh
index 93ab89c3..18ed8d92 100644
--- a/recipes/ffmpeg/recipe.sh
+++ b/recipes/ffmpeg/recipe.sh
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ function recipe_update {
 function recipe_build {
     sysroot="$PWD/../sysroot"
     export LDFLAGS="-L$sysroot/lib"
-    export CPPFLAGS="-I$sysroot/include -I$sysroot/include/ncurses"
+    export CPPFLAGS="-I$sysroot/include"
     ./configure \
         --enable-cross-compile \
         --target-os=redox \