diff --git a/gui-apps/ashell/ashell-0.3.0.ebuild b/gui-apps/ashell/ashell-0.3.0.ebuild
index f1d5ec6261..b6a8da85cd 100644
--- a/gui-apps/ashell/ashell-0.3.0.ebuild
+++ b/gui-apps/ashell/ashell-0.3.0.ebuild
@@ -472,7 +472,10 @@ declare -A GIT_CRATES=(
 	[smithay-clipboard]='https://github.com/pop-os/smithay-clipboard;ab422ddcc95a9a1717df094f9c8fe69e2fdb2a27;smithay-clipboard-%commit%'
 )
 
-inherit cargo
+LLVM_COMPAT=( 18 19 )
+RUST_NEEDS_LLVM=1
+
+inherit cargo llvm-r1
 
 DESCRIPTION="A ready to go Wayland status bar for Hyprland"
 HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/MalpenZibo/ashell"
@@ -497,3 +500,12 @@ RDEPEND="
 	media-video/pipewire:=
 	x11-libs/libxkbcommon
 "
+# libclang is required for bindgen
+BDEPEND="
+	$(llvm_gen_dep 'llvm-core/clang:${LLVM_SLOT}')
+"
+
+pkg_setup() {
+	llvm-r1_pkg_setup
+	rust_pkg_setup
+}