diff --git a/scripts/extract-ikconfig b/scripts/extract-ikconfig
index ef6140dc2ded67270c88fed0db4d07baf5fd8019..be2e579774198a01a45d22a2bae32e9439f0091e 100755
--- a/scripts/extract-ikconfig
+++ b/scripts/extract-ikconfig
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 # $arg1 is [b]zImage filename
 
 binoffset="./scripts/binoffset"
+test -e $binoffset || cc -o $binoffset ./scripts/binoffset.c || exit 1
 
 IKCFG_ST="0x49 0x4b 0x43 0x46 0x47 0x5f 0x53 0x54"
 IKCFG_ED="0x49 0x4b 0x43 0x46 0x47 0x5f 0x45 0x44"