diff --git a/flake.nix b/flake.nix
index 4e5b15e29..4912a076b 100644
--- a/flake.nix
+++ b/flake.nix
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@
 
         nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgs.qt5.wrapQtAppsHook ];
         # keep llvm_x and lld_x in sync with llvmlite
-        propagatedBuildInputs = [ pkgs.llvm_11 pkgs.lld_11 sipyco.packages.x86_64-linux.sipyco pythonparser artiq-comtools.packages.x86_64-linux.artiq-comtools ]
+        propagatedBuildInputs = [ pkgs.llvm_11 pkgs.lld_11 sipyco.packages.x86_64-linux.sipyco pythonparser pkgs.qt5.qtsvg artiq-comtools.packages.x86_64-linux.artiq-comtools ]
           ++ (with pkgs.python3Packages; [ llvmlite pyqtgraph pygit2 numpy dateutil scipy prettytable pyserial levenshtein h5py pyqt5 qasync tqdm lmdb jsonschema ]);
 
         dontWrapQtApps = true;
@@ -406,7 +406,7 @@
         ];
         shellHook = ''
           export LIBARTIQ_SUPPORT=`libartiq-support`
-          export QT_PLUGIN_PATH=${pkgs.qt5.qtbase}/${pkgs.qt5.qtbase.dev.qtPluginPrefix}
+          export QT_PLUGIN_PATH=${pkgs.qt5.qtbase}/${pkgs.qt5.qtbase.dev.qtPluginPrefix}:${pkgs.qt5.qtsvg.bin}/${pkgs.qt5.qtbase.dev.qtPluginPrefix}
           export QML2_IMPORT_PATH=${pkgs.qt5.qtbase}/${pkgs.qt5.qtbase.dev.qtQmlPrefix}
         '';
       };