diff --git a/gnu/packages/image-processing.scm b/gnu/packages/image-processing.scm
index 272f400f67..a1a6c8ca5c 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/image-processing.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/image-processing.scm
@@ -428,6 +428,7 @@ (define-public opencv
              "-DWITH_ITT=OFF"
              "-DWITH_CAROTENE=OFF" ; only visible on arm/aarch64
              "-DENABLE_PRECOMPILED_HEADERS=OFF"
+             "-DOPENCV_GENERATE_PKGCONFIG=ON"
 
              ;; CPU-Features:
              ;; See cmake/OpenCVCompilerOptimizations.cmake