diff --git a/dev-perl/net_ssleay/net_ssleay-1.94.recipe b/dev-perl/net_ssleay/net_ssleay-1.94.recipe
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5a12e8f29
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-perl/net_ssleay/net_ssleay-1.94.recipe
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+SUMMARY="Perl bindings for OpenSSL and LibreSSL"
+DESCRIPTION="This module provides Perl bindings for libssl (an SSL/TLS API) and libcrypto (a \
+cryptography API)."
+HOMEPAGE="https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::SSLeay"
+COPYRIGHT="1996-2003 Sampo Kellomäki
+	2005-2010 Florian Ragwitz
+	2005-2018 Mike McCauley
+	2018 Tuure Vartiainen
+	2018- Chris Novakovic
+	2018- Heikki Vatiainen"
+LICENSE="Artistic v2.0"
+REVISION="1"
+SOURCE_URI="https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/C/CH/CHRISN/Net-SSLeay-$portVersion.tar.gz"
+CHECKSUM_SHA256="9d7be8a56d1bedda05c425306cc504ba134307e0c09bda4a788c98744ebcd95d"
+SOURCE_DIR="Net-SSLeay-$portVersion"
+PATCHES="net_ssleay-$portVersion.patchset"
+
+ARCHITECTURES="all !x86_gcc2"
+SECONDARY_ARCHITECTURES="x86"
+
+PROVIDES="
+	net_ssleay$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	"
+if [ -n "$secondaryArchSuffix" ]; then
+	PROVIDES+="
+		net_ssleay = $portVersion
+		"
+fi
+REQUIRES="
+	haiku$secondaryArchSuffix
+	vendor_perl
+	lib:libcrypto$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libssl$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libz$secondaryArchSuffix
+	"
+
+BUILD_REQUIRES="
+	haiku${secondaryArchSuffix}_devel
+	"
+BUILD_PREREQUIRES="
+	cmd:gcc$secondaryArchSuffix
+	cmd:make
+	cmd:perl
+	devel:libcrypto$secondaryArchSuffix >= 3
+	devel:libssl$secondaryArchSuffix >= 3
+	devel:libz$secondaryArchSuffix
+	"
+
+BUILD()
+{
+	perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=$prefix
+	make
+}
+
+INSTALL()
+{
+	make pure_install
+}
+
+TEST()
+{
+	make test
+}
diff --git a/dev-perl/net_ssleay/patches/net_ssleay-1.94.patchset b/dev-perl/net_ssleay/patches/net_ssleay-1.94.patchset
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..628ddec57
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-perl/net_ssleay/patches/net_ssleay-1.94.patchset
@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+From c92c896c3b8219c25175b4ef1b4b33064d1f1767 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?Joachim=20Mairb=C3=B6ck?= <j.mairboeck@gmail.com>
+Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2025 15:16:12 +0100
+Subject: add Haiku header and library paths
+
+
+diff --git a/Makefile.PL b/Makefile.PL
+index 94c72f2..c358621 100644
+--- a/Makefile.PL
++++ b/Makefile.PL
+@@ -224,6 +224,8 @@ sub ssleay_get_build_opts {
+     my @try_includes = (
+         'include' => sub { 1 },
+         'inc32'   => sub { $OSNAME eq 'MSWin32' },
++        'develop/headers/x86' => sub { $OSNAME eq 'haiku' && $Config{'archname'} =~ /BePC/ },
++        'develop/headers' => sub { $OSNAME eq 'haiku' },
+     );
+ 
+     while (
+@@ -244,6 +246,8 @@ sub ssleay_get_build_opts {
+     # phase fails.
+     my @try_lib_paths = (
+ 	["$prefix/lib64", "$prefix/lib", "$prefix/out32dll", $prefix] => sub {$OSNAME eq 'darwin' },
++	["$prefix/develop/lib/x86"] => sub { $OSNAME eq 'haiku' && $Config{'archname'} =~ /BePC/ },
++	["$prefix/develop/lib"] => sub { $OSNAME eq 'haiku' },
+ 	[$prefix, "$prefix/lib64", "$prefix/lib", "$prefix/out32dll"] => sub { 1 },
+ 	);
+ 
+-- 
+2.45.2
+
+
+From 105d28de7fb430720cf7bbe7269609f512299a04 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?Joachim=20Mairb=C3=B6ck?= <j.mairboeck@gmail.com>
+Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2025 15:16:51 +0100
+Subject: disable network tests and the interactive prompt for them
+
+
+diff --git a/Makefile.PL b/Makefile.PL
+index c358621..3b2222b 100644
+--- a/Makefile.PL
++++ b/Makefile.PL
+@@ -28,11 +28,7 @@ use constant ALERT_WIDTH => 78;
+ # the Net-SSLeay loadable object on Windows
+ my $win_link_statically = 0;
+ 
+-my $tests = prompt(
+-  "Do you want to run external tests?\n".
+-  "These tests *will* *fail* if you do not have network connectivity.",
+-  'n',
+-) =~ /^y/i ? 't/*/*.t t/*/*/*.t' : 't/local/*.t t/handle/local/*.t';
++my $tests = 't/local/*.t t/handle/local/*.t';
+ 
+ my %eumm_args = (
+   NAME => 'Net::SSLeay',
+-- 
+2.45.2
+
+
+From 808cb091caa20c92d28b8b740d6e526a80c9af25 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?Joachim=20Mairb=C3=B6ck?= <j.mairboeck@gmail.com>
+Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2025 16:42:26 +0100
+Subject: increase timeout for test
+
+The test took 142 seconds on my system (running in VirtualBox which could be the issue here).
+
+diff --git a/t/local/62_threads-ctx_new-deadlock.t b/t/local/62_threads-ctx_new-deadlock.t
+index fac8808..cdb2f4b 100644
+--- a/t/local/62_threads-ctx_new-deadlock.t
++++ b/t/local/62_threads-ctx_new-deadlock.t
+@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ eval { Net::SSLeay::OPENSSL_INIT_NO_ATEXIT(); return 1; } ?
+ my $start_time = time;
+ 
+ #exit the whole program if it runs too long
+-threads->new( sub { sleep 20; warn "FATAL: TIMEOUT!"; exit } )->detach;
++threads->new( sub { sleep 200; warn "FATAL: TIMEOUT!"; exit } )->detach;
+ 
+ #print STDERR "Gonna start multi-threading part\n";
+ threads->new(\&do_check) for (1..100);
+-- 
+2.45.2
+