diff --git a/recipes-misc/recipes-multimedia/carla/carla_git.bb b/recipes-misc/recipes-multimedia/carla/carla_git.bb
index db8467c7..3e66d4f7 100644
--- a/recipes-misc/recipes-multimedia/carla/carla_git.bb
+++ b/recipes-misc/recipes-multimedia/carla/carla_git.bb
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ SRC_URI = " \
     file://0001-Use-fluid-instead-of-ntk-fluid.patch \
     file://0002-do-not-try-to-cross-run-carla-lv2-export.patch \
     file://0003-Don-t-disable-EXPERIMENTAL_PLUGINS.patch \
+    file://0004-do-not-autodetect-pyqt-it-won-t-work-in-oe.patch \
 "
 SRCREV = "4a1e17888fc9abb0a4ea4a83d8f7020a5eabda1c"
 S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
@@ -18,7 +19,7 @@ PV = "1.9.7b+git${SRCPV}"
 
 REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES = "x11"
 
-inherit qmake5_base autotools-brokensep pkgconfig qemu-ext distro_features_check
+inherit qmake5_base autotools-brokensep pkgconfig qemu-ext distro_features_check mime gtk-icon-cache
 
 # Notes on fltk-native / ntk
 # Ntk is a fork of fltk using cairo. Ntk cannot be build native easily without
@@ -26,6 +27,7 @@ inherit qmake5_base autotools-brokensep pkgconfig qemu-ext distro_features_check
 
 DEPENDS += " \
     fltk-native \
+    python3-pyqt5-native \
     ntk \
     gtk+ \
     gtk+3 \
@@ -47,6 +49,9 @@ EXTRA_OEMAKE += " \
     PREFIX=${prefix} \
     NOOPT=true \
     EXPERIMENTAL_PLUGINS=true \
+    HAVE_PYQT=true \
+    HAVE_PYQT4=false \
+    HAVE_PYQT5=true \
 "
 
 LDFLAGS += "-lpng"
@@ -57,9 +62,13 @@ do_compile_append() {
 }
 
 FILES_${PN} += " \
+    ${datadir}/icons \
+    ${datadir}/mime \
     ${libdir}/python3 \
     ${libdir}/lv2 \
     ${libdir}/vst \
 "
 
 INSANE_SKIP_${PN} = "dev-so already-stripped"
+
+RDEPENDS_${PN} += "python3-pyqt5 bash"
diff --git a/recipes-misc/recipes-multimedia/carla/files/0004-do-not-autodetect-pyqt-it-won-t-work-in-oe.patch b/recipes-misc/recipes-multimedia/carla/files/0004-do-not-autodetect-pyqt-it-won-t-work-in-oe.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..548190a8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes-misc/recipes-multimedia/carla/files/0004-do-not-autodetect-pyqt-it-won-t-work-in-oe.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+From 875457d88e933109393fc24b41338d7f301d771d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?Andreas=20M=C3=BCller?= <schnitzeltony@googlemail.com>
+Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2017 12:16:16 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] do not autodetect pyqt - it won't work in oe
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+
+Upstream-Status: Inappropriate [oe-specific]
+
+Signed-off-by: Andreas Müller <schnitzeltony@googlemail.com>
+---
+ source/Makefile.mk | 20 --------------------
+ 1 file changed, 20 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/source/Makefile.mk b/source/Makefile.mk
+index 5db2b76..1190f25 100644
+--- a/source/Makefile.mk
++++ b/source/Makefile.mk
+@@ -256,26 +256,6 @@ HAVE_QT=true
+ endif
+ 
+ # --------------------------------------------------------------
+-# Set PyQt tools
+-
+-PYUIC4 ?= /usr/bin/pyuic4
+-PYUIC5 ?= /usr/bin/pyuic5
+-
+-ifneq (,$(wildcard $(PYUIC4)))
+-HAVE_PYQT=true
+-HAVE_PYQT4=true
+-else
+-HAVE_PYQT4=false
+-endif
+-
+-ifneq (,$(wildcard $(PYUIC5)))
+-HAVE_PYQT=true
+-HAVE_PYQT5=true
+-else
+-HAVE_PYQT5=false
+-endif
+-
+-# --------------------------------------------------------------
+ # Set default Qt used in frontend
+ 
+ ifeq ($(HAVE_PYQT4),true)
+-- 
+2.9.4
+