diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib.inc b/meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib.inc
index ba7763c841..404c82ef6e 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib.inc
@@ -157,6 +157,8 @@ CODEGEN_PYTHON_RDEPENDS:mingw32 = ""
 
 RDEPENDS:${PN}-codegen += "${CODEGEN_PYTHON_RDEPENDS}"
 
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-dev += "${PN}-utils"
+
 RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "\
             coreutils \
             libgcc \