diff --git a/recipes/dev/fontconfig/recipe.toml b/recipes/dev/fontconfig/recipe.toml
index 7dfed5a71..c7cb44049 100644
--- a/recipes/dev/fontconfig/recipe.toml
+++ b/recipes/dev/fontconfig/recipe.toml
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ dependencies = [
 	"zlib",
 ]
 script = """
+DYNAMIC_INIT
 COOKBOOK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS+=(
     --disable-docs \
     ac_cv_func_XML_SetDoctypeDeclHandler=yes