diff --git a/src/gallium/frontends/rusticl/meson.build b/src/gallium/frontends/rusticl/meson.build
index bdcc0d15c44..f6c28da414e 100644
--- a/src/gallium/frontends/rusticl/meson.build
+++ b/src/gallium/frontends/rusticl/meson.build
@@ -115,11 +115,17 @@ rusticl_bindgen_args = [
   '--anon-fields-prefix', 'anon_',
 ]
 
-if find_program('bindgen').version().version_compare('< 0.62')
+bindgen_version = find_program('bindgen').version()
+
+if bindgen_version == 'unknown'
+  error('Failed to detect bindgen version. If you are using bindgen 0.69.0, please either update to 0.69.1 or downgrade to 0.68.1. You can install the latest version for your user with `cargo install bindgen-cli`.')
+endif
+
+if bindgen_version.version_compare('< 0.62')
   error('rusticl requires bindgen 0.62 or newer. If your distribution does not ship a recent enough version, you can install the latest version for your user with `cargo install bindgen-cli`.')
 endif
 
-if find_program('bindgen').version().version_compare('< 0.65')
+if bindgen_version.version_compare('< 0.65')
   rusticl_bindgen_args += [
     '--size_t-is-usize',
   ]