diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/texworks/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/texworks/default.nix
index d0347bcb37c6..87990b6eae8f 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/texworks/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/texworks/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ mkDerivation, lib, fetchFromGitHub, cmake, pkg-config
+{ mkDerivation, lib, fetchFromGitHub, fetchpatch, cmake, pkg-config
 , qtscript, poppler, hunspell
 , withLua ? true, lua
 , withPython ? true, python3 }:
@@ -14,6 +14,14 @@ mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "1lw1p4iyzxypvjhnav11g6rwf6gx7kyzwy2iprvv8zzpqcdkjp2z";
   };
 
+  patches = [
+    (fetchpatch {
+      name = "fix-compilation-with-qt-5.15.patch";
+      url = "https://github.com/TeXworks/texworks/commit/a5352a3a94e3685125650b65e6197de060326cc2.patch";
+      sha256 = "0pf7h1m11x0s039bxknm7rxdp9b4g8ch86y38jlyy56c74mw97i6";
+    })
+  ];
+
   nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake pkg-config ];
   buildInputs = [ qtscript poppler hunspell ]
                 ++ lib.optional withLua lua
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index d4f858a0e6ec..0fe077feed00 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -8261,7 +8261,7 @@ in
 
   textadept11 = callPackage ../applications/editors/textadept/11 { };
 
-  texworks = libsForQt514.callPackage ../applications/editors/texworks { };
+  texworks = libsForQt5.callPackage ../applications/editors/texworks { };
 
   thc-hydra = callPackage ../tools/security/thc-hydra { };