diff --git a/dev-util/lxqt-build-tools/Manifest b/dev-util/lxqt-build-tools/Manifest
index a078496933321..a7e7df2579371 100644
--- a/dev-util/lxqt-build-tools/Manifest
+++ b/dev-util/lxqt-build-tools/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST lxqt-build-tools-2.3.0.tar.xz 25784 BLAKE2B db67e270cc21a7974bd4c362cfc22234dc60ae6bf214e6dc6930ed898f66f27914b7f01e4001a89b100094a9b425bc7f276e1dfeb61ba52d09c69d486e161aed SHA512 79bb0afa355235258285e6aa6519acb278a7f591f059c7756630c2d02c3bdfc3c98cf1ef71eb333d5ef7820f5e283c03993fa8f3108b712b819b59fc68e847b8
+DIST lxqt-build-tools-2.4.0.tar.xz 26924 BLAKE2B 7a853060e71b18fc902c15567ba949aed53bcdd22b5579e7084843010e53abd9f3732ecd59161dce92369420436d751086578a02670fdae0a9251e3c955d19a1 SHA512 18b6e6e418eb3a6b64005af68cf628490f33b0249f3b54edd41cc1aa09d7e1a799ae28bad1d7bfd8b54a4aa51ed08df794743d472b505f96bc05f7269b9385f0
diff --git a/dev-util/lxqt-build-tools/lxqt-build-tools-2.4.0.ebuild b/dev-util/lxqt-build-tools/lxqt-build-tools-2.4.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..72a3eac44aed2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-util/lxqt-build-tools/lxqt-build-tools-2.4.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2026 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit cmake
+
+DESCRIPTION="LXQt Build Tools"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://lxqt-project.org/
+	https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt-build-tools/
+"
+
+if [[ ${PV} == 9999 ]]; then
+	inherit git-r3
+	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/lxqt/${PN}.git"
+else
+	SRC_URI="https://github.com/lxqt/${PN}/releases/download/${PV}/${P}.tar.xz"
+	KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~ppc64 ~riscv ~x86"
+fi
+
+LICENSE="BSD"
+SLOT="0"
+
+DEPEND="
+	>=dev-libs/glib-2.50.0
+	>=dev-qt/qtbase-6.6:6
+"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"