diff --git a/interface/src/ui/MetavoxelEditor.cpp b/interface/src/ui/MetavoxelEditor.cpp
index 71539d3a27..ee1b4b0460 100644
--- a/interface/src/ui/MetavoxelEditor.cpp
+++ b/interface/src/ui/MetavoxelEditor.cpp
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@
 //  Created by Andrzej Kapolka on 1/21/14.
 //  Copyright (c) 2014 High Fidelity, Inc. All rights reserved.
 
+// include this before QOpenGLFramebufferObject, which includes an earlier version of OpenGL
+#include "InterfaceConfig.h"
+
 #include <QComboBox>
 #include <QDialogButtonBox>
 #include <QDoubleSpinBox>