diff --git a/dev-util/premake/Manifest b/dev-util/premake/Manifest
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+DIST premake-5.0.0_beta7.tar.gz 8499540 BLAKE2B 51c6da107fb0a24c62b1a8f0ab6b1f118d4103d2e4033c2d98f104918cd1d0914cbecf93a54d481c30aebf07497ac8989d0e7048617f626725dc1be48943ebfb SHA512 b6ed480c85db82d749b22b1b97537da525d8eb062514766393c1ff4fc8077289c0037200b7bc260754f320fd5d9c109cb56adbaeec59d485cd95728564927499
diff --git a/dev-util/premake/metadata.xml b/dev-util/premake/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="person">
+		<email>titanofold@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Aaron W. Swenson</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<longdescription lang="en">
+		Describe your software project just once, using Premake's simple and
+		easy to read syntax, and build it everywhere. Generate project files
+		for Visual Studio, GNU Make, Xcode, Code::Blocks, and more across
+		Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Use the full featured Lua scripting
+		engine to make build configuration tasks a breeze.
+	</longdescription>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="github">premake/premake-core</remote-id>
+		<remote-id type="sourceforge">premake</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-util/premake/premake-5.0.0_beta7.ebuild b/dev-util/premake/premake-5.0.0_beta7.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit toolchain-funcs
+
+MY_PV=${PV/_/-}
+
+DESCRIPTION="A makefile generation tool"
+HOMEPAGE="https://premake.github.io"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/premake/premake-core/archive/v${MY_PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+S="${WORKDIR}/${PN}-core-${MY_PV}"
+
+LICENSE="BSD"
+SLOT="5"
+KEYWORDS="amd64 ~arm64 ppc ~ppc64 x86"
+
+PATCHES=(
+)
+
+src_compile() {
+	# bug #773505
+	tc-export AR CC
+
+	emake -f Bootstrap.mak linux
+}
+
+src_test() {
+	bin/release/premake${SLOT} test || die
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	dobin bin/release/premake${SLOT}
+
+	einstalldocs
+}