diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index b60a9fe..c93b8a6 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -95,7 +95,14 @@ endif
 glib_version = '2.38'
 glib_version_info = '>= @0@'.format(glib_version)
 
-deps = {'spice-protocol' : '>= 0.12.12',
+spice_protocol_version = '0.12.12'
+
+spice_protocol_version_req = get_option('spice-protocol-version')
+if spice_protocol_version_req.version_compare('> @0@'.format(spice_protocol_version))
+  spice_protocol_version = spice_protocol_version_req
+endif
+
+deps = {'spice-protocol' : '>= @0@'.format(spice_protocol_version),
         'glib-2.0'       : glib_version_info,
         'gio-2.0'        : glib_version_info,
         'gthread-2.0'    : glib_version_info,
diff --git a/meson_options.txt b/meson_options.txt
index d93d74b..9f10a63 100644
--- a/meson_options.txt
+++ b/meson_options.txt
@@ -47,3 +47,8 @@ option('tests',
     value : true,
     yield : true,
     description : 'Enable SPICE tests')
+
+option('spice-protocol-version',
+    type : 'string',
+    value : '0.1', # not existing low number version
+    description : 'Minimal requested SPICE protocol version')