diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 38edec61dd0..10e8fb0244b 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1943,6 +1943,11 @@ if with_clc
   endif
 endif
 
+dep_lua = dependency('lua54', 'lua5.4', 'lua-5.4',
+                     'lua53', 'lua5.3', 'lua-5.3',
+                     'lua', required: false,
+                     allow_fallback: true, version: '>=5.3')
+
 # Be explicit about only using this lib on Windows, to avoid picking
 # up random libs with the generic name 'libversion'
 dep_version = null_dep
diff --git a/src/freedreno/meson.build b/src/freedreno/meson.build
index b455cd68b9e..29e1bc42400 100644
--- a/src/freedreno/meson.build
+++ b/src/freedreno/meson.build
@@ -8,12 +8,6 @@ rnn_src_path = dir_source_root + '/src/freedreno/registers'
 rnn_install_path = get_option('datadir') + '/freedreno/registers'
 rnn_path = rnn_src_path + ':' + get_option('prefix') + '/' + rnn_install_path
 
-dep_lua = dependency('lua54', 'lua5.4', 'lua-5.4',
-                     'lua53', 'lua5.3', 'lua-5.3',
-                     'lua52', 'lua5.2', 'lua-5.2',
-                     'lua', required: false,
-                     allow_fallback: true, version: '>=5.2')
-
 dep_libarchive = dependency('libarchive', allow_fallback: true, required: false)
 dep_libxml2 = dependency('libxml-2.0', allow_fallback: true, required: false)
 prog_gzip = find_program('gzip', required: false)