diff --git a/libswscale/swscale_internal.h b/libswscale/swscale_internal.h
index abeebbb002..2f6cc70946 100644
--- a/libswscale/swscale_internal.h
+++ b/libswscale/swscale_internal.h
@@ -34,7 +34,9 @@
 #include "libavutil/pixfmt.h"
 #include "libavutil/pixdesc.h"
 #include "libavutil/slicethread.h"
+#if HAVE_ALTIVEC
 #include "libavutil/ppc/util_altivec.h"
+#endif
 #include "libavutil/half2float.h"
 
 #define STR(s) AV_TOSTRING(s) // AV_STRINGIFY is too long