diff --git a/gvsbuild/patches/cairo/0001-fix-alloca-unresolved.patch b/gvsbuild/patches/cairo/0001-fix-alloca-unresolved.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 63b085b37..000000000
--- a/gvsbuild/patches/cairo/0001-fix-alloca-unresolved.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-Subject: [PATCH] Fix alloca unresolved
----
-Index: src/cairo-colr-glyph-render.c
-IDEA additional info:
-Subsystem: com.intellij.openapi.diff.impl.patch.CharsetEP
-<+>UTF-8
-===================================================================
-diff --git a/src/cairo-colr-glyph-render.c b/src/cairo-colr-glyph-render.c
---- a/src/cairo-colr-glyph-render.c	(revision 459d19ef1520d39078038ecaa840efca0194e053)
-+++ b/src/cairo-colr-glyph-render.c	(date 1696094155649)
-@@ -43,6 +43,10 @@
- #include <stdio.h>
- #include <string.h>
- 
-+#ifdef _MSC_VER
-+#include <malloc.h>
-+#endif
-+
- #if HAVE_FT_COLR_V1
- 
- #include <ft2build.h>
diff --git a/gvsbuild/projects/cairo.py b/gvsbuild/projects/cairo.py
index f321bb182..b8114a451 100644
--- a/gvsbuild/projects/cairo.py
+++ b/gvsbuild/projects/cairo.py
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ def __init__(self):
             archive_url="https://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-{version}.tar.xz",
             hash="445ed8208a6e4823de1226a74ca319d3600e83f6369f99b14265006599c32ccb",
             dependencies=["fontconfig", "freetype", "glib", "pixman", "libpng"],
-            patches=["0001-fix-alloca-unresolved.patch"],
         )
         self.add_param("-Ddwrite=enabled")
         self.add_param("-Dfreetype=enabled")