diff --git a/recipes-phosphor/logging/openpower-libhei_git.bb b/recipes-phosphor/logging/openpower-libhei_git.bb
index 8516f0d..365d658 100644
--- a/recipes-phosphor/logging/openpower-libhei_git.bb
+++ b/recipes-phosphor/logging/openpower-libhei_git.bb
@@ -11,3 +11,7 @@
 SRCREV = "abc51c2b6fca6ed704c6fd70426faf0038f2e807"
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
+
+inherit perlnative
+
+DEPENDS += "libxml2-native libxml-simple-perl-native"