diff --git a/x11-packages/lite-xl/build.sh b/x11-packages/lite-xl/build.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f2cfd0ffc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/x11-packages/lite-xl/build.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl
+TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="A lightweight text editor written in Lua"
+TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="MIT"
+TERMUX_PKG_MAINTAINER="@leapofazzam123"
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=2.0.3
+TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL="https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl/archive/refs/tags/v$TERMUX_PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=6c8a4ea284f102f772e3aff583236e89d5b1171664526dd501000b681ae5c4e2
+TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="sdl2, freetype, liblua52"
+
+termux_step_pre_configure() {
+	# reproc needs librt but we don't have it
+	# and we can't directly patch subprojects
+	# because it needs to be patch after
+	# meson downloads it
+	echo 'INPUT(-lc)' > $TERMUX_PREFIX/lib/librt.so
+}
+
+termux_step_post_make_install() {
+	rm $TERMUX_PREFIX/lib/librt.so
+}
diff --git a/x11-packages/lite-xl/meson.build.patch b/x11-packages/lite-xl/meson.build.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3befddcdc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/x11-packages/lite-xl/meson.build.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+diff -uNr lite-xl.orig/meson.build lite-xl/meson.build
+--- lite-xl.orig/meson.build
++++ lite-xl/meson.build
+@@ -47,11 +47,11 @@
+     libm = cc.find_library('m', required : false)
+     libdl = cc.find_library('dl', required : false)
+     threads_dep = dependency('threads')
+-    lua_dep = dependency('lua5.2', fallback: ['lua', 'lua_dep'],
++    lua_dep = dependency('lua52', fallback: ['lua', 'lua_dep'],
+         default_options: ['shared=false', 'use_readline=false', 'app=false']
+     )
+     pcre2_dep = dependency('libpcre2-8')
+-    sdl_dep = dependency('sdl2', method: 'config-tool')
++    sdl_dep = dependency('sdl2', method: 'pkg-config')
+     reproc_dep = dependency('reproc', fallback: ['reproc', 'reproc_dep'],
+         default_options: [
+             'default_library=static', 'multithreaded=false',