diff --git a/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-x11-free.inc b/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-x11-free.inc
index 369b3d5ae0..46869aa09f 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-x11-free.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-x11-free.inc
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ require qt4.inc
 DESCRIPTION = "Qt is a versatile cross-platform application framework -- this is the X11 version."
 HOMEPAGE = "http://qt-project.org/"
 SECTION = "x11/libs"
-DEPENDS += "virtual/libgl virtual/libx11 fontconfig libxft libxext libxrender libxrandr libxcursor"
+DEPENDS += "virtual/libgl virtual/libx11 fontconfig libxft libxext libxrender libxrandr libxcursor icu"
 PROVIDES += "qt4-x11"
 QT4DEPENDS = ""
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4.inc b/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4.inc
index 6adc4042c8..2944acf89f 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4.inc
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ QT_MULTIMEDIA ?= "${@base_contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'pulseaudio', '-pulseaudio
 QT_CONFIG_FLAGS += "-release -no-cups -reduce-relocations \
                     -shared -no-nas-sound -no-nis \
                     -system-libjpeg -system-libpng -system-libtiff -system-zlib \
-                    -no-pch -stl -glib \
+                    -no-pch -stl -glib -icu \
                     -no-rpath -silent \
                     ${QT_DBUS} \
                     ${QT_QT3SUPPORT} \