diff --git a/dev-cpp/hydrocarbon/Manifest b/dev-cpp/hydrocarbon/Manifest
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+DIST hydrocarbon-0.1.1.tar.gz 170302 BLAKE2B 6054aae4b4d61a50ce5afa342d5a72d7ae85d34f98893f39e874b63fb2aeff326b521d618ac5c5da28990d3cf2150eea1581594e3664c2bdc60e96ae269118b4 SHA512 f52e79bb8bb66786e343f714a17584f84fdca340301677b69030c56e3b9ae528591ed9abfd15636ce62765571264e7b653240b3e5e5fe51cef76f4b79238ab5a
diff --git a/dev-cpp/hydrocarbon/hydrocarbon-0.1.1.ebuild b/dev-cpp/hydrocarbon/hydrocarbon-0.1.1.ebuild
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+# Copyright 2018-2026 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit cmake
+
+DESCRIPTION="Simple, self-contained C++23 HTTP library"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/crueter/hydrocarbon"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/crueter/hydrocarbon/archive/${PV}.tar.gz
+	-> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64"
+
+# tests currently use httpbin, this will change eventually.
+RESTRICT="test"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	dev-libs/openssl
+"
+DEPEND="
+	${RDEPEND}
+"
+
+src_configure() {
+	local mycmakeargs=(
+		-DHYDROCARBON_BUILD_TESTS=OFF
+	)
+
+	cmake_src_configure
+}
diff --git a/dev-cpp/hydrocarbon/metadata.xml b/dev-cpp/hydrocarbon/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+  <maintainer type="person">
+    <name>crueter</name>
+    <email>crueter@crueter.xyz</email>
+  </maintainer>
+  <upstream>
+    <doc>https://github.com/crueter/hydrocarbon/blob/master/README.md#usage</doc>
+    <bugs-to>https://github.com/crueter/hydrocarbon/issues</bugs-to>
+    <remote-id type="github">crueter/hydrocarbon</remote-id>
+  </upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>