--- /dev/null
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+<maintainer type='person'>
+<email>jer@gentoo.org</email>
+</maintainer>
+</pkgmetadata>
--- /dev/null
+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=6
+inherit flag-o-matic git-r3 savedconfig toolchain-funcs
+
+DESCRIPTION="An obstinate, asymmetric, tiling, window manager for X"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/seanpringle/xowl"
+EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/seanpringle/xowl"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS=""
+
+DEPEND="
+ x11-libs/libX11
+ x11-libs/libXft
+ x11-libs/libXinerama
+"
+RDEPEND="
+ ${DEPEND}
+"
+
+src_prepare() {
+ default
+ restore_config config.h
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+ tc-export CC PKG_CONFIG
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+ XOAT_COMPILE=(
+ ${CC} -o ${PN} ${PN}.c ${CFLAGS} -std=c99 ${LDFLAGS}
+ $(${PKG_CONFIG} --cflags --libs x11 xft xinerama)
+ )
+ echo ${XOAT_COMPILE[@]}
+ ${XOAT_COMPILE[@]} || die
+}
+
+src_install() {
+ dobin xowl
+ dodoc xowl.md
+ doman xowl.1
+ save_config config.h
+}