diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 5ac15d8356..43a87407b0 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1203,6 +1203,7 @@ libxenctrl = dependency('xencontrol',
                         version : '>= 4.9',
                         required : get_option('xenctrl'))
 conf.set10('HAVE_XENCTRL', libxenctrl.found())
+libxenctrl_cflags = libxenctrl.partial_dependency(includes: true, compile_args: true)
 
 feature = get_option('pam')
 libpam = dependency('pam',
diff --git a/src/shared/meson.build b/src/shared/meson.build
index 0ef34d4bc8..08441de0ad 100644
--- a/src/shared/meson.build
+++ b/src/shared/meson.build
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ libshared_deps = [threads,
                   librt,
                   libseccomp,
                   libselinux,
-                  libxenctrl,
+                  libxenctrl_cflags,
                   libxz,
                   libzstd]