diff --git a/bin/meson.build b/bin/meson.build
index 8761bde2f682be618c6971921dc426b9311cda61..c99713ded380b34a9537829a17e0d474f3e1fc41 100644
--- a/bin/meson.build
+++ b/bin/meson.build
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 executable(
   'steam-runtime-system-info',
   'system-info.c',
-  dependencies : [glib, libsteamrt_dep, json_glib],
+  dependencies : [glib, json_glib, libsteamrt_dep],
   install : true,
   # Use the adjacent libsteam-runtime-tools and json-glib, ignoring
   # LD_LIBRARY_PATH even if set
diff --git a/helpers/meson.build b/helpers/meson.build
index 75dfd1544f4d15c876f0025efdd8f95a8bc8613e..c9fd9f63f92b933ea06ad3470e7eab8eff690351 100644
--- a/helpers/meson.build
+++ b/helpers/meson.build
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ executable(
   multiarch + '-check-locale',
   'check-locale.c',
   include_directories : project_include_dirs,
-  dependencies : [json_glib, glib],
+  dependencies : [glib, json_glib],
   install : true,
   install_dir : pkglibexecdir,
   # Use json-glib and GLib from the adjacent libdir, ignoring LD_LIBRARY_PATH
diff --git a/steam-runtime-tools/meson.build b/steam-runtime-tools/meson.build
index 0df88ed5ee0524109fc465dd625530868a51f181..7f372c4f8225e21e3092953cb029a49fa455044a 100644
--- a/steam-runtime-tools/meson.build
+++ b/steam-runtime-tools/meson.build
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ libsteamrt = library(
     '-D_SRT_API_MAJOR="' + api_major + '"',
   ],
   include_directories : project_include_dirs,
-  dependencies : [glib, gobject, libdl, json_glib, threads, libelf],
+  dependencies : [libdl, threads, libelf, glib, gobject, json_glib],
   soversion : abi_major,
   version : abi_major + '.' + abi_minor,
   install : true,
diff --git a/tests/meson.build b/tests/meson.build
index 47137cf2b3d8e76b470b136e8deee0f188fac90d..8a59c3c4d5ed42ec1dceb08cf5e42c611e5dd148 100644
--- a/tests/meson.build
+++ b/tests/meson.build
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ foreach test_name : tests
     c_args : [
       '-D_SRT_MULTIARCH="' + multiarch + '"',
     ],
-    dependencies : [glib, gobject, libsteamrt_dep, json_glib],
+    dependencies : [glib, gobject, json_glib, libsteamrt_dep],
     include_directories : project_include_dirs,
     install : get_option('installed_tests'),
     install_dir : tests_dir,