diff --git a/dev-cpp/waylandpp/files/waylandpp-0.2.7-fix-std-runtime_error.patch b/dev-cpp/waylandpp/files/waylandpp-0.2.7-fix-std-runtime_error.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..41e71eb237bcb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-cpp/waylandpp/files/waylandpp-0.2.7-fix-std-runtime_error.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+From 695c0881101435a57d24c84d04cbcb79eec49903 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Rechi <Rechi@users.noreply.github.com>
+Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2020 23:37:46 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] [fix] add missing stdexcept include after 2d834a6
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+
+fixes error: ‘runtime_error’ is not a member of ‘std’
+---
+ include/wayland-util.hpp | 1 +
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
+
+diff --git a/include/wayland-util.hpp b/include/wayland-util.hpp
+index 9cf5d04..1609651 100644
+--- a/include/wayland-util.hpp
++++ b/include/wayland-util.hpp
+@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
+ 
+ #include <algorithm>
+ #include <memory>
++#include <stdexcept>
+ #include <string>
+ #include <typeinfo>
+ #include <utility>
diff --git a/dev-cpp/waylandpp/waylandpp-0.2.7.ebuild b/dev-cpp/waylandpp/waylandpp-0.2.7.ebuild
index 6fda559666cb0..f25c7dccb2b2a 100644
--- a/dev-cpp/waylandpp/waylandpp-0.2.7.ebuild
+++ b/dev-cpp/waylandpp/waylandpp-0.2.7.ebuild
@@ -32,6 +32,10 @@ DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
 	)
 	"
 
+PATCHES=(
+	"${FILESDIR}/${P}-fix-std-runtime_error.patch"
+)
+
 src_configure() {
 	local mycmakeargs=(
 		-DBUILD_DOCUMENTATION=$(usex doc)