diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 0075ed1c4f..eac1218d32 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ webp = ["dep:image-webp"]
 
 # Other features
 rayon = ["dep:rayon"] # Enables multi-threading
+nasm = ["ravif?/asm"] # Enables use of nasm by rav1e (requires nasm to be installed)
 avif-native = ["dep:mp4parse", "dep:dcv-color-primitives", "dep:dav1d"] # Enable native dependency libdav1d
 benchmarks = [] # Build some inline benchmarks. Useful only during development (requires nightly Rust)