diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/sm/smpeg/gtk.patch b/pkgs/by-name/sm/smpeg/gtk.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 8f9f2f492ed1..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/by-name/sm/smpeg/gtk.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-diff '--color=auto' -Naur smpeg-r390.orig/acinclude/gtk-2.0.m4 smpeg-r390/acinclude/gtk-2.0.m4
---- smpeg-r390.orig/acinclude/gtk-2.0.m4	1970-01-01 08:00:01.000000000 +0800
-+++ smpeg-r390/acinclude/gtk-2.0.m4	2021-12-16 15:52:17.776001058 +0800
-@@ -24,10 +24,8 @@
- 
-   no_gtk=""
- 
--  AC_PATH_PROG(PKG_CONFIG, pkg-config, no)
--
-   if test x$PKG_CONFIG != xno ; then
--    if pkg-config --atleast-pkgconfig-version 0.7 ; then
-+    if $PKG_CONFIG --atleast-pkgconfig-version 0.7 ; then
-       :
-     else
-       echo "*** pkg-config too old; version 0.7 or better required."
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/sm/smpeg/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/sm/smpeg/package.nix
index 53b2612f4e46..58bd09004863 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/sm/smpeg/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/sm/smpeg/package.nix
@@ -7,11 +7,8 @@
   autoconf,
   automake,
   libtool,
-  gtk2,
   m4,
   pkg-config,
-  libGLU,
-  libGL,
   makeWrapper,
 }:
 
@@ -29,7 +26,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
   patches = lib.optionals (!stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin) [ ./libx11.patch ] ++ [
     ./format.patch
     ./gcc6.patch
-    ./gtk.patch
     # These patches remove use of the `register` storage class specifier,
     # allowing smpeg to build with clang 16, which defaults to C++17.
     (fetchpatch {
@@ -50,6 +46,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
+  configureFlags = [
+    "--enable-gtk-player=no"
+    "--enable-opengl-player=no"
+  ];
+
   nativeBuildInputs = [
     autoconf
     automake
@@ -61,11 +62,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
 
   buildInputs = [
     SDL
-  ]
-  ++ lib.optionals (!stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin) [
-    gtk2
-    libGLU
-    libGL
   ];
 
   outputs = [
@@ -93,10 +89,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
       --prefix PKG_CONFIG_PATH ":" "${lib.getDev SDL}/lib/pkgconfig"
   '';
 
-  env = lib.optionalAttrs (!stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin) {
-    NIX_LDFLAGS = "-lX11";
-  };
-
   meta = {
     homepage = "https://icculus.org/smpeg/";
     description = "MPEG decoding library";