diff --git a/gnu/local.mk b/gnu/local.mk
index 5016d16d7a..92a2255893 100644
--- a/gnu/local.mk
+++ b/gnu/local.mk
@@ -1326,6 +1326,7 @@ dist_patch_DATA =						\
   %D%/packages/patches/openocd-nrf52.patch			\
   %D%/packages/patches/openssh-hurd.patch			\
   %D%/packages/patches/openresolv-restartcmd-guix.patch	\
+  %D%/packages/patches/openscad-parser-boost-1.72.patch	\
   %D%/packages/patches/openssl-runpath.patch			\
   %D%/packages/patches/openssl-1.1-c-rehash-in.patch		\
   %D%/packages/patches/openssl-c-rehash-in.patch		\
diff --git a/gnu/packages/engineering.scm b/gnu/packages/engineering.scm
index 2102f8d295..9d9c67b861 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/engineering.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/engineering.scm
@@ -2263,7 +2263,9 @@ (define-public openscad
                            ".src.tar.gz"))
        (sha256
         (base32
-         "0nbgk5q5pgnw53la0kccdcpz2f4xf6d6076rkn0q08z57hkc85ha"))))
+         "0nbgk5q5pgnw53la0kccdcpz2f4xf6d6076rkn0q08z57hkc85ha"))
+       (patches (search-patches
+                 "openscad-parser-boost-1.72.patch"))))
     (build-system cmake-build-system)
     (inputs
      `(("boost" ,boost)
diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/openscad-parser-boost-1.72.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/openscad-parser-boost-1.72.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..35311e6173
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gnu/packages/patches/openscad-parser-boost-1.72.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+https://github.com/openscad/openscad/commit/b6c170cc5d.patch
+
+From b6c170cc5dd1bc677176ee732cdb0ddae57e5cf0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org>
+Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 15:10:26 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH] Add missing header bootlegged by Boost < 1.72
+
+src/parser.y:76:6: error: no template named 'stack' in namespace 'std'
+std::stack<LocalScope *> scope_stack;
+~~~~~^
+---
+ src/parser.y | 1 +
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
+
+diff --git a/src/parser.y b/src/parser.y
+index 7f4fd56ca7..4c77c989ea 100644
+--- a/src/parser.y
++++ b/src/parser.y
+@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
+ #include "printutils.h"
+ #include "memory.h"
+ #include <sstream>
++#include <stack>
+ #include <boost/filesystem.hpp>
+ #include "boost-utils.h"
+ #include "feature.h"