diff --git a/pkgs/applications/emulators/wine/base.nix b/pkgs/applications/emulators/wine/base.nix
index 7788b13b4ecb..47852d69e3ba 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/emulators/wine/base.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/emulators/wine/base.nix
@@ -175,7 +175,9 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation ((lib.optionalAttrs (buildScript != null) {
     done
   '';
 
-  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+  # Until https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/172617 is applied,
+  # parallel builds do not always work because of a bug in dlltool.
+  enableParallelBuilding = false;
 
   # https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43530
   # https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/31989