diff --git a/dev-games/surgescript/surgescript-0.5.4.ebuild b/dev-games/surgescript/surgescript-0.5.4.ebuild
index 63ebe50f3e..2df1bdd4fc 100644
--- a/dev-games/surgescript/surgescript-0.5.4.ebuild
+++ b/dev-games/surgescript/surgescript-0.5.4.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2019 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 2019-2020 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=7
@@ -17,4 +17,17 @@ DESCRIPTION="scripting language made for opensurge"
 HOMEPAGE="https://alemart.github.io/surgescript"
 LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
 SLOT="0"
-# TODO: build documentation, needs dev-python/mkdocs-material
+
+IUSE="doc"
+
+BDEPEND="doc? (
+	dev-python/mkdocs
+	dev-python/mkdocs-material )"
+
+src_compile() {
+	default
+	if use doc; then
+		mkdocs build || die "failed to make docs"
+		HTML_DOCS="site"
+	fi
+}
diff --git a/dev-games/surgescript/surgescript-9999.ebuild b/dev-games/surgescript/surgescript-9999.ebuild
index 63ebe50f3e..2df1bdd4fc 100644
--- a/dev-games/surgescript/surgescript-9999.ebuild
+++ b/dev-games/surgescript/surgescript-9999.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2019 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 2019-2020 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=7
@@ -17,4 +17,17 @@ DESCRIPTION="scripting language made for opensurge"
 HOMEPAGE="https://alemart.github.io/surgescript"
 LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
 SLOT="0"
-# TODO: build documentation, needs dev-python/mkdocs-material
+
+IUSE="doc"
+
+BDEPEND="doc? (
+	dev-python/mkdocs
+	dev-python/mkdocs-material )"
+
+src_compile() {
+	default
+	if use doc; then
+		mkdocs build || die "failed to make docs"
+		HTML_DOCS="site"
+	fi
+}