diff --git a/srcpkgs/x265/template b/srcpkgs/x265/template
index 71a7970d0f7..8e72afeb3a1 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/x265/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/x265/template
@@ -12,8 +12,10 @@ homepage="http://x265.org/"
 license="GPL-2"
 distfiles="https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265/downloads/x265_${version}.tar.gz"
 checksum=b872552535e41fbffa03ba7cbcd3479c42c4053868309292e78e147b7773ac4b
-nocross=yes
-only_for_archs="i686 i686-musl x86_64 x86_64-musl"  # CMakeList is utterly broken.
+
+if [ -n "$CROSS_BUILD" ]; then
+	configure_args+=" -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR=${CROSS_BUILD%-musl}"
+fi
 
 x265-devel_package() {
 	depends="${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision}"