diff --git a/msys2/PKGBUILD/40-mingw-w64-libass/PKGBUILD b/msys2/PKGBUILD/40-mingw-w64-libass/PKGBUILD
index 24c404a5d..84de4ca75 100644
--- a/msys2/PKGBUILD/40-mingw-w64-libass/PKGBUILD
+++ b/msys2/PKGBUILD/40-mingw-w64-libass/PKGBUILD
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ build() {
     --target=${MINGW_CHOST} \
     --disable-shared \
     --enable-static \
-    --disable-directwrite \
+    --enable-directwrite \
     --disable-libunibreak \
     --with-pic \
     $( [[ "${CARCH}" != "i686" \