diff --git a/net-p2p/transmission/patches/transmission-2.12.patch b/net-p2p/transmission/patches/transmission-2.12.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..942a152e5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net-p2p/transmission/patches/transmission-2.12.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+diff -Naur transmission-2.12/libtransmission/JSON_parser.c transmission-2.12-haiku/libtransmission/JSON_parser.c
+--- transmission-2.12/libtransmission/JSON_parser.c	2010-06-27 01:28:16.064225280 +0000
++++ transmission-2.12-haiku/libtransmission/JSON_parser.c	2010-07-10 06:08:57.465829888 +0000
+@@ -80,6 +80,10 @@
+ #   endif
+ #endif
+
++/* This can be removed once http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/3408 is fixed */
++#ifdef __HAIKU__
++#   define strtold strtod
++#endif
+
+ #define true  1
+ #define false 0
+diff -Naur transmission-2.12/third-party/miniupnp/connecthostport.c transmission-2.12-haiku/third-party/miniupnp/connecthostport.c
+--- transmission-2.12/third-party/miniupnp/connecthostport.c	2010-06-27 01:28:53.066584576 +0000
++++ transmission-2.12-haiku/third-party/miniupnp/connecthostport.c	2010-07-10 06:08:57.467664896 +0000
+@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
+ #ifndef USE_GETHOSTBYNAME
+ #include <sys/types.h>
+ #include <sys/socket.h>
++#include <sys/select.h>
+ #endif /* #ifndef USE_GETHOSTBYNAME */
+ #endif /* #else WIN32 */
+
diff --git a/net-p2p/transmission/transmission-2.12.bep b/net-p2p/transmission/transmission-2.12.bep
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..280fa11bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net-p2p/transmission/transmission-2.12.bep
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+DESCRIPTION="Transmission"
+HOMEPAGE="http://www.transmissionbt.com/"
+SRC_URI="http://download.transmissionbt.com/files/transmission-2.12.tar.bz2"
+CHECKSUM_MD5="f3d34fdbbf3ae25635f9e7bf7e662cd9"
+REVISION="1"
+STATUS_HAIKU="stable"
+MESSAGE="This port only builds with gcc4. Use 'setgcc gcc4' before building."
+
+# pkgconfig is only a build dependency
+# note: intlool, XML-Parser, & gettext are now required
+DEPEND="dev-util/pkgconfig >= 0.23
+	net-misc/curl >= 7.20.1
+	dev-libs/libevent >= 1.4.11"
+
+BUILD {
+	cd transmission-2.12
+	autoreconf -vfi
+	./configure --prefix=/boot/common
+	make
+}
+
+INSTALL {
+	cd transmission-2.12
+	make install
+}
+LICENSE="Transmission
+	MIT
+	GNU GPL v2"
+COPYRIGHT="2005-2010. All code is copyrighted by the respective authors."