diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/pipelight/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/pipelight/default.nix
index 20b45360f01b..4c7e9d0892ca 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/misc/pipelight/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/pipelight/default.nix
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   buildInputs = [ wine_custom libX11 libGLU libGL curl ];
 
-  propagatedbuildInputs = [ curl cabextract ];
+  NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = [ "-fpermissive" ];
 
   patches = [ ./pipelight.patch ];