diff --git a/meta/classes/meson.bbclass b/meta/classes/meson.bbclass
index 0bfe945811..8c732e6174 100644
--- a/meta/classes/meson.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/meson.bbclass
@@ -114,6 +114,8 @@ cpp_link_args = ${@meson_array('BUILD_LDFLAGS', d)}
 EOF
 }
 
+MESON_QEMU_WRAPPER_HELPER ?= ""
+
 do_write_config:append:class-target() {
     # Write out a qemu wrapper that will be used as exe_wrapper so that meson
     # can run target helper binaries through that.
@@ -127,6 +129,9 @@ export GIO_MODULE_DIR=${STAGING_LIBDIR}/gio/modules-dummy
 # meson sets this wrongly (only to libs in build-dir), qemu_wrapper_cmdline() and GIR_EXTRA_LIBS_PATH take care of it properly
 unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH
 
+# import any customization provided in the helper
+test -f "${MESON_QEMU_WRAPPER_HELPER}" && . ${MESON_QEMU_WRAPPER_HELPER}
+
 $qemu_binary "\$@"
 EOF
     chmod +x ${WORKDIR}/meson-qemuwrapper