diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/wic/wic_0.3.0.bb b/meta/recipes-support/wic/wic_0.3.0.bb
index 7dbf84b039a6..6efe974e02bd 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/wic/wic_0.3.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/wic/wic_0.3.0.bb
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ CVE_PRODUCT = "yoctoproject:wic"
 
 inherit python_hatchling
 
+require recipes-core/meta/wic-tools.inc
+
 RDEPENDS:${PN} += " \
     python3-core \
     python3-json \
@@ -17,4 +19,20 @@ RDEPENDS:${PN} += " \
     python3-misc \
     "
 
+# wic shells out to the WIC_TOOLS tools but does not declare them, so
+# wherever wic is installed as a package it may not have them and its
+# offline lookup falls back to the host PATH. Pull them in for the
+# nativesdk variant so they are present regardless of the host; native
+# and target wic are unaffected.
+RDEPENDS:${PN}:append:class-nativesdk = "${@' '.join(' nativesdk-%s' % t for t in d.getVar('WIC_TOOLS').split())}"
+
+# resize2fs is split into its own e2fsprogs-resize2fs package, so
+# nativesdk-e2fsprogs alone does not provide it.
+RDEPENDS:${PN}:append:class-nativesdk = " nativesdk-e2fsprogs-resize2fs"
+
+# syslinux (and its isohybrid helper, in the -misc package) only builds
+# for x86 hosts; cdrtools (mkisofs) is native-only with no nativesdk
+# variant and so cannot be included.
+RDEPENDS:${PN}:append:class-nativesdk = "${@' nativesdk-syslinux nativesdk-syslinux-misc' if d.getVar('SDK_ARCH') in ['x86_64', 'i686'] else ''}"
+
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"