diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/xm/xmlcopyeditor/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/xm/xmlcopyeditor/package.nix
index ee5e1562e9b4..6e614460b8b6 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/xm/xmlcopyeditor/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/xm/xmlcopyeditor/package.nix
@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
     xercesc
   ];
 
+  env.NIX_LDFLAGS = lib.optionalString stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin "-liconv";
+
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
   meta = {