diff --git a/dev-util/ragel/patches/ragel-6.8.patch b/dev-util/ragel/patches/ragel-6.8.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..756ff6a5b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-util/ragel/patches/ragel-6.8.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+diff -ur ragel-6.8/ragel/common.h ragel-6.8-haiku/ragel/common.h
+--- ragel-6.8/ragel/common.h	2013-02-11 01:57:45.020971520 +0000
++++ ragel-6.8-haiku/ragel/common.h	2013-12-30 19:13:12.330301440 +0000
+@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
+ 
+ #include <fstream>
+ #include <climits>
++#include <cstdio>
+ #include "dlist.h"
+ 
+ /* Location in an input file. */
+diff -ur ragel-6.8/ragel/mlcodegen.cpp ragel-6.8-haiku/ragel/mlcodegen.cpp
+--- ragel-6.8/ragel/mlcodegen.cpp	2013-02-11 01:57:45.022282240 +0000
++++ ragel-6.8-haiku/ragel/mlcodegen.cpp	2013-12-30 19:18:36.937426944 +0000
+@@ -514,7 +514,7 @@
+   {
+     data_prefix = string(fsmName) + "_";
+     if (data_prefix.size() > 0)
+-      data_prefix[0] = ::tolower(data_prefix[0]); // uncapitalize
++      data_prefix[0] = tolower(data_prefix[0]); // uncapitalize
+   }
+ 	if ( !noPrefix )
+ 		return data_prefix;
diff --git a/dev-util/ragel/ragel-6.8.recipe b/dev-util/ragel/ragel-6.8.recipe
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5498ddc40
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-util/ragel/ragel-6.8.recipe
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+SUMMARY="Ragel compiles executable finite state machines from regular languages"
+DESCRIPTION="
+Ragel compiles executable finite state machines from regular languages.
+
+Ragel targets C, C++, Objective-C, C#, D, Java, Ruby, OCaml and Go.
+
+Ragel state machines can not only recognize byte sequences as regular expression machines do, but can also execute code at arbitrary points in the recognition of a regular language.
+Code embedding is done using inline operators that do not disrupt the regular language syntax."
+
+HOMEPAGE="http://www.complang.org/ragel"
+SRC_URI="http://www.complang.org/ragel/ragel-6.8.tar.gz"
+CHECKSUM_MD5="1bb39745ac23da449019f9f2cb4b0d01"
+
+REVISION="1"
+
+LICENSE="GNU GPL v1"
+COPYRIGHT="
+	2001-2009 Adrian Thurston <thurston@complang.org>
+	2007 Victor Hugo Borja <vic@rubyforge.org>
+	2011 Josef Goettgens
+	"
+
+ARCHITECTURES="x86_gcc2 x86 ?x86_64"
+SECONDARY_ARCHITECTURES="x86_gcc2 x86"
+
+PROVIDES="
+	ragel = $portVersion
+	cmd:ragel$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	"
+REQUIRES="
+	haiku$secondaryArchSuffix >= $haikuVersion
+	"
+BUILD_REQUIRES="
+	haiku${secondaryArchSuffix}_devel >= $haikuVersion
+	"
+BUILD_PREREQUIRES="
+	cmd:gcc$secondaryArchSuffix
+	cmd:ld$secondaryArchSuffix
+	cmd:make
+	"
+	
+PATCHES="ragel-6.8.patch"
+
+BUILD()
+{
+	runConfigure ./configure
+	make
+}
+
+INSTALL()
+{
+	make install
+}