diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
index 65d674d3..aad941ce 100644
--- a/index.html
+++ b/index.html
@@ -2185,7 +2185,7 @@ aptitude -t squeeze-backports install cmake yasm</pre>
     </tr>
     <tr>
         <td id="vmime-package">vmime</td>
-        <td id="vmime-version">ee68f6c</td>
+        <td id="vmime-version">5fcb20d</td>
         <td id="vmime-website"><a href="http://www.vmime.org/">VMime</a></td>
     </tr>
     <tr>
diff --git a/src/vmime-1.patch b/src/vmime-1.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..633be6cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/vmime-1.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+This file is part of MXE.
+See index.html for further information.
+
+From 01e591d33435cbd027be6a85bac521138e45c19f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Mark Brand <mabrand@mabrand.nl>
+Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 09:21:46 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] predefine VMIME_STATIC for convenience
+
+
+diff --git a/vmime.pc.in b/vmime.pc.in
+index fc1103e..11dd0ea 100644
+--- a/vmime.pc.in
++++ b/vmime.pc.in
+@@ -9,5 +9,5 @@ Version: @VMIME_PACKAGE_VERSION@
+ Requires.private: @VMIME_PKGCONFIG_REQUIRES@
+ Libs: -L${libdir} -l@VMIME_LIBRARY_NAME@
+ Libs.private: @VMIME_PKGCONFIG_LIBS@
+-Cflags: -I${includedir}/ @VMIME_PKGCONFIG_CFLAGS@
++Cflags: -I${includedir}/ @VMIME_PKGCONFIG_CFLAGS@ -DVMIME_STATIC
+ 
+-- 
+1.8.1.4
+
diff --git a/src/vmime.mk b/src/vmime.mk
index 12eb98b5..46399705 100644
--- a/src/vmime.mk
+++ b/src/vmime.mk
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 PKG             := vmime
 $(PKG)_IGNORE   :=
-$(PKG)_CHECKSUM := b6190648acdb831eb861627310da4a8bc7057099
+$(PKG)_CHECKSUM := 02771f72db0bde27b80287627c8d8885558bd2d1
 $(PKG)_SUBDIR   := kisli-vmime-$($(PKG)_VERSION)
 $(PKG)_FILE     := $(PKG)-$($(PKG)_VERSION).tar.gz
 $(PKG)_URL      := https://github.com/kisli/vmime/tarball/$($(PKG)_VERSION)/$(PKG)_FILE