diff --git a/dev-cpp/rapidyaml/Manifest b/dev-cpp/rapidyaml/Manifest
index e35f06231bce5..8b86347fac045 100644
--- a/dev-cpp/rapidyaml/Manifest
+++ b/dev-cpp/rapidyaml/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
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+DIST rapidyaml-0.11.1-src.tgz 10339484 BLAKE2B 1348476f61ecb9df43ed65faef2692f113e5d32e3b8f65fe273e188009031e0956f31ee5f337fa3bbd5e026fa24dbdd5ea0008fe10d2542491d225305de0790a SHA512 ce9e4031cef915ee3fc280f4a655e5206cde42446d0b1425b5e3656893a9441e34c0479097ab55aa9d532187333f5a57d888b3afe1f315692b6e044e8a0db37b
 DIST rapidyaml-0.9.0-src.tgz 10233562 BLAKE2B 270fa4b2277e978e56d16e173f8ec83691016ffab8911b23528204b88109ae58ca113258681f36fee411f6fe62433fa79e4395c798e10c0b6609ca1e68651c7c SHA512 77c2c27c23274789982a9aaaa54e184a635326ce509ad8c2a4eb1c4e2927cd2f1fa7ad66c71f221677d2d36d69ae0d9a7260872739662a0ee66870fd3421ab54
diff --git a/dev-cpp/rapidyaml/rapidyaml-0.11.1.ebuild b/dev-cpp/rapidyaml/rapidyaml-0.11.1.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..e1d556d99436d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-cpp/rapidyaml/rapidyaml-0.11.1.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+# Copyright 2022-2026 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit cmake
+
+DESCRIPTION="Library to parse and emit YAML, and do it fast"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/biojppm/rapidyaml/"
+SRC_URI="
+	https://github.com/biojppm/rapidyaml/releases/download/v${PV}/${P}-src.tgz
+"
+S=${WORKDIR}/${P}-src
+
+LICENSE="MIT Boost-1.0 BSD"
+SLOT="0/${PV}"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64 ~ppc64 ~riscv ~x86"
+
+# tests are too much of a maintenance headache
+RESTRICT="test"
+
+DOCS=( README.md ROADMAP.md changelog )
+
+src_prepare() {
+	cmake_src_prepare
+
+	sed -E "/set\(_(ARCHIVE|LIBRARY)_INSTALL/s:lib/:$(get_libdir)/:" \
+		-i ext/c4core/cmake/c4Project.cmake || die
+}