diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 244837a0..864f5516 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -20,9 +20,7 @@ endif
 # about the way these two components work together can be found in the readme
 # file.
 
-# Boost 1.72 has a known bug in Boost.Process that will cause compilation to
-# fail, see https://github.com/boostorg/process/issues/116
-boost_dep = dependency('boost', version : '!=1.72', modules : ['filesystem'])
+boost_dep = dependency('boost', modules : ['filesystem'])
 bitsery_dep = subproject('bitsery').get_variable('bitsery_dep')
 threads_dep = dependency('threads')
 # The built in threads dependency does not know how to handle winegcc
diff --git a/src/plugin/host-bridge.cpp b/src/plugin/host-bridge.cpp
index 2b2815ff..3b8c573f 100644
--- a/src/plugin/host-bridge.cpp
+++ b/src/plugin/host-bridge.cpp
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ void HostBridge::set_parameter(AEffect* /*plugin*/, int index, float value) {
     assert(!response.value.has_value());
 }
 
-void HostBridge::async_log_pipe_lines(bp::async_pipe& pipe,
+void HostBridge::async_log_pipe_lines(patched_async_pipe& pipe,
                                       boost::asio::streambuf& buffer,
                                       std::string prefix) {
     boost::asio::async_read_until(
diff --git a/src/plugin/host-bridge.h b/src/plugin/host-bridge.h
index 2698db8e..a4269b7a 100644
--- a/src/plugin/host-bridge.h
+++ b/src/plugin/host-bridge.h
@@ -27,6 +27,23 @@
 
 #include "../common/logging.h"
 
+/**
+ * Boost 1.72 was released with a known breaking bug caused by a missing
+ * typedef: https://github.com/boostorg/process/issues/116.
+ *
+ * Luckily this is easy to fix since it's not really possible to downgrade Boost
+ * as it would break other applications.
+ *
+ * Check if this is still needed for other distros after Arch starts packaging
+ * Boost 1.73.
+ */
+class patched_async_pipe : public boost::process::async_pipe {
+   public:
+    using boost::process::async_pipe::async_pipe;
+
+    typedef typename handle_type::executor_type executor_type;
+};
+
 /**
  * This handles the communication between the Linux native VST plugin and the
  * Wine VST host. The functions below should be used as callback functions in an
@@ -103,7 +120,7 @@ class HostBridge {
      * @param buffer The stream buffer to write to.
      * @param prefix Text to prepend to the line before writing to the log.
      */
-    void async_log_pipe_lines(boost::process::async_pipe& pipe,
+    void async_log_pipe_lines(patched_async_pipe& pipe,
                               boost::asio::streambuf& buffer,
                               std::string prefix = "");
 
@@ -150,11 +167,11 @@ class HostBridge {
     /**
      * The STDOUT stream of the Wine process we can forward to the logger.
      */
-    boost::process::async_pipe wine_stdout;
+    patched_async_pipe wine_stdout;
     /**
      * The STDERR stream of the Wine process we can forward to the logger.
      */
-    boost::process::async_pipe wine_stderr;
+    patched_async_pipe wine_stderr;
     /**
      * Runs the Boost.Asio `io_context` thread for logging the Wine process
      * STDOUT and STDERR messages.