diff --git a/pandas/_libs/meson.build b/pandas/_libs/meson.build
index f302c649bc7bd..c0a9d1ad8ee4a 100644
--- a/pandas/_libs/meson.build
+++ b/pandas/_libs/meson.build
@@ -69,7 +69,8 @@ libs_sources = {
     'index': {'sources': ['index.pyx', _index_class_helper]},
     'indexing': {'sources': ['indexing.pyx']},
     'internals': {'sources': ['internals.pyx']},
-    'interval': {'sources': ['interval.pyx', _intervaltree_helper]},
+    'interval': {'sources': ['interval.pyx', _intervaltree_helper],
+                 'deps': _khash_primitive_helper_dep},
     'join': {'sources': ['join.pyx', _khash_primitive_helper],
              'deps': _khash_primitive_helper_dep},
     'lib': {'sources': ['lib.pyx', 'src/parser/tokenizer.c']},