diff --git a/Tools/ardupilotwaf/boards.py b/Tools/ardupilotwaf/boards.py
index fc3176fdc2..fe01d35af4 100644
--- a/Tools/ardupilotwaf/boards.py
+++ b/Tools/ardupilotwaf/boards.py
@@ -57,6 +57,10 @@ class Board:
         # make easy to override them. Convert back to list before consumption.
         env.DEFINES = {}
 
+        env.prepend_value('INCLUDES', [
+            cfg.srcnode.find_dir('libraries/AP_Common/missing').abspath()
+        ])
+
         env.CFLAGS += [
             '-ffunction-sections',
             '-fdata-sections',
@@ -333,9 +337,6 @@ class px4(Board):
             CONFIG_HAL_BOARD = 'HAL_BOARD_PX4',
             HAVE_STD_NULLPTR_T = 0,
         )
-        env.prepend_value('INCLUDES', [
-            cfg.srcnode.find_dir('libraries/AP_Common/missing').abspath()
-        ])
         env.CXXFLAGS += [
             '-Wlogical-op',
             '-Wframe-larger-than=1300',