diff --git a/meta-digi-dey/dynamic-layers/freescale-layer/recipes-graphics/wayland/weston_12.0.4.imx.bbappend b/meta-digi-dey/dynamic-layers/freescale-layer/recipes-graphics/wayland/weston_12.0.4.imx.bbappend
index b3b1d7caf..24ac95055 100644
--- a/meta-digi-dey/dynamic-layers/freescale-layer/recipes-graphics/wayland/weston_12.0.4.imx.bbappend
+++ b/meta-digi-dey/dynamic-layers/freescale-layer/recipes-graphics/wayland/weston_12.0.4.imx.bbappend
@@ -7,3 +7,9 @@ SRC_URI += " \
 "
 
 EXTRA_OEMESON += "-Ddeprecated-wl-shell=true"
+
+# This package is already in RRECOMMENDS, but it doesn't get included in the
+# SDK due to it being a soft dependency from a complementary package. Make it a
+# hard dependency so it gets included.
+# See: poky commit 4705dd264681d908f144dd4d9bf1f6175f68d8b9
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-dev += "wayland-protocols"