diff --git a/libavfilter/vf_drawtext.c b/libavfilter/vf_drawtext.c
index 703b472902..314e0fc808 100644
--- a/libavfilter/vf_drawtext.c
+++ b/libavfilter/vf_drawtext.c
@@ -47,7 +47,6 @@
 #include "video.h"
 
 #include <ft2build.h>
-#include <freetype/config/ftheader.h>
 #include FT_FREETYPE_H
 #include FT_GLYPH_H