diff --git a/spa/meson.build b/spa/meson.build
index 5087c0073..1137adf60 100644
--- a/spa/meson.build
+++ b/spa/meson.build
@@ -18,6 +18,13 @@ spa_dep = declare_dependency(
   },
 )
 
+spa_inc_dep = declare_dependency(
+  include_directories : [
+    include_directories('include'),
+    include_directories('include-private'),
+  ],
+)
+
 meson.override_dependency('lib@0@'.format(spa_name), spa_dep)
 
 pkgconfig.generate(filebase : 'lib@0@'.format(spa_name),
diff --git a/spa/tools/meson.build b/spa/tools/meson.build
index 9508e65ca..60e66b55c 100644
--- a/spa/tools/meson.build
+++ b/spa/tools/meson.build
@@ -6,6 +6,12 @@ executable('spa-monitor', 'spa-monitor.c',
            dependencies : [ spa_dep, dl_lib ],
            install : true)
 
-spa_json_dump_exe = executable('spa-json-dump', 'spa-json-dump.c',
-           dependencies : [ spa_dep, dl_lib, ],
+spa_json_dump = executable('spa-json-dump', 'spa-json-dump.c',
+           dependencies : [ spa_dep ],
            install : true)
+
+spa_json_dump_exe = executable('spa-json-dump-native', 'spa-json-dump.c',
+           dependencies : [ spa_inc_dep ],
+           native : true)
+
+meson.override_find_program('spa-json-dump', spa_json_dump_exe)