diff --git a/haiku-misc/pdfwriter/patches/pdfwriter-1.0.patchset b/haiku-misc/pdfwriter/patches/pdfwriter-1.0.patchset
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a39f2594c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/haiku-misc/pdfwriter/patches/pdfwriter-1.0.patchset
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From 5095f62a7e316697d2147743e7b111930da1064f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Jerome Duval <jerome.duval@gmail.com>
+Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 22:49:17 +0200
+Subject: link against libstdc++.
+
+
+diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
+index 6cb354c..882a012 100644
+--- a/Makefile
++++ b/Makefile
+@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ RSRCS =
+ #	- 	if your library does not follow the standard library naming scheme,
+ #		you need to specify the path to the library and it's name.
+ #		(e.g. for mylib.a, specify "mylib.a" or "path/mylib.a")
+-LIBS = be pdf textencoding translation print printutils
++LIBS = be pdf textencoding translation print printutils $(STDCPPLIBS)
+ 
+ #	Specify additional paths to directories following the standard libXXX.so
+ #	or libXXX.a naming scheme. You can specify full paths or paths relative
+-- 
+2.12.2
+
diff --git a/haiku-misc/pdfwriter/pdfwriter-1.0.recipe b/haiku-misc/pdfwriter/pdfwriter-1.0.recipe
index a9e05f1d1..774b98d5e 100644
--- a/haiku-misc/pdfwriter/pdfwriter-1.0.recipe
+++ b/haiku-misc/pdfwriter/pdfwriter-1.0.recipe
@@ -9,8 +9,9 @@ srcGitRev="7267aff12ce96a381c8a817b04e4e8f1fd3036a0"
 SOURCE_URI="$HOMEPAGE/archive/$srcGitRev.tar.gz"
 CHECKSUM_SHA256="8eaecc3980dffd37e7c0a01d106eded735670bcd0def9c8dfedfca583d277e9e"
 SOURCE_DIR="PDFWriter-$srcGitRev"
+PATCHES="pdfwriter-$portVersion.patchset"
 
-ARCHITECTURES="x86_gcc2 ?x86 ?x86_64"
+ARCHITECTURES="x86_gcc2 ?x86 x86_64"
 
 PROVIDES="
 	PDFWriter = $portVersion