diff --git a/app-text/md4c/md4c-0.5.2.ebuild b/app-text/md4c/md4c-0.5.2.ebuild
index 4a8b725b1c..524311cd3f 100644
--- a/app-text/md4c/md4c-0.5.2.ebuild
+++ b/app-text/md4c/md4c-0.5.2.ebuild
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ inherit cmake
 
 # TODO(NRK):
 # - enable tests
-# - useflag to not build md2html tool
 # - useflag for static lib (?)
+# - move this under dev-libs or maybe split the md2html tool into it's own package (??)
 
 if [[ ${PV} == 9999 ]]; then
 	inherit git-r3
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/mity/md4c"
 
 LICENSE="MIT"
 SLOT="0"
+IUSE="+md2html"
 
 src_prepare() {
 	cmake_src_prepare
@@ -34,6 +35,7 @@ src_configure() {
 	mycmakeargs=(
 		-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
 		-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON
+		-DBUILD_MD2HTML_EXECUTABLE=$(usex md2html ON OFF)
 	)
 
 	cmake_src_configure
diff --git a/app-text/md4c/metadata.xml b/app-text/md4c/metadata.xml
index 0b2c5c0d69..102047fdc7 100644
--- a/app-text/md4c/metadata.xml
+++ b/app-text/md4c/metadata.xml
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@
 	<maintainer type="person">
 		<email>nrk@disroot.org</email>
 	</maintainer>
+	<use>
+		<flag name="md2html">Build the md2html cli tool</flag>
+	</use>
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="github">mity/md4c</remote-id>
 	</upstream>