diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/erlang/generic-builder.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/erlang/generic-builder.nix
index bc0b728ecce4b..e7c1a341856b3 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/erlang/generic-builder.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/erlang/generic-builder.nix
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 , unixODBC ? null # odbcSupport
 , libGLU_combined ? null, wxGTK ? null, wxmac ? null, xorg ? null # wxSupport
 , withSystemd ? stdenv.isLinux, systemd # systemd support in epmd
+, buildPackages
 }:
 
 { baseName ? "erlang"
@@ -41,6 +42,8 @@ let
   inherit (stdenv.lib) optional optionals optionalAttrs optionalString;
   wxPackages2 = if stdenv.isDarwin then [ wxmac ] else wxPackages;
 
+  isCross = stdenv.hostPlatform != stdenv.buildPlatform;
+
 in stdenv.mkDerivation ({
   name = "${baseName}-${version}"
     + optionalString javacSupport "-javac"
@@ -48,7 +51,15 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation ({
 
   inherit src version;
 
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ autoreconfHook makeWrapper perl gnum4 libxslt libxml2 ];
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    buildPackages.autoreconfHook
+    buildPackages.makeWrapper
+    buildPackages.perl
+    buildPackages.gnum4
+    buildPackages.libxslt
+    buildPackages.libxml2
+  ]
+    ++ optional isCross buildPackages.erlang;
 
   buildInputs = [ ncurses openssl ]
     ++ optionals wxSupport wxPackages2
@@ -83,7 +94,7 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation ({
     ++ optional enableThreads "--enable-threads"
     ++ optional enableSmpSupport "--enable-smp-support"
     ++ optional enableKernelPoll "--enable-kernel-poll"
-    ++ optional enableHipe "--enable-hipe"
+    ++ optional (enableHipe && !isCross) "--enable-hipe"
     ++ optional javacSupport "--with-javac"
     ++ optional odbcSupport "--with-odbc=${unixODBC}"
     ++ optional wxSupport "--enable-wx"