diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/gettext/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/gettext/default.nix
index 3f8215d19fc..22acc73c49c 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/gettext/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/gettext/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ stdenv, lib, fetchurl, libiconv, xz }:
+{ stdenv, lib, fetchurl, fetchpatch, libiconv, xz }:
 
 # Note: this package is used for bootstrapping fetchurl, and thus
 # cannot use fetchpatch! All mutable patches (generated by GitHub or
@@ -15,7 +15,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   };
   patches = [
     ./absolute-paths.diff
-  ];
+  ] ++ lib.optional stdenv.hostPlatform.isWindows (fetchpatch {
+    url = "https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/plain/gettext_formatstring-ruby.patch?h=mingw-w64-gettext&id=e8b577ee3d399518d005e33613f23363a7df07ee";
+    name = "gettext_formatstring-ruby.patch";
+    sha256 = "sha256-6SxZObOMkQDxuKJuJY+mQ/VuJJxSeGbf97J8ZZddCV0=";
+  });
 
   outputs = [ "out" "man" "doc" "info" ];