diff --git a/srcpkgs/wmctrl/patches/01_64-bit-data.patch b/srcpkgs/wmctrl/patches/01_64-bit-data.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..9d47ea5381f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/wmctrl/patches/01_64-bit-data.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+Description: Correct 64 Architecture implementation of 32 bit data
+Author: Chris Donoghue <cdonoghu@gmail.com>
+Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/362068
+
+--- main.c
++++ main.c
+@@ -1425,6 +1425,16 @@ static gchar *get_property (Display *dis
+      *
+      * long_length = Specifies the length in 32-bit multiples of the
+      *               data to be retrieved.
++     *
++     * NOTE:  see 
++     * http://mail.gnome.org/archives/wm-spec-list/2003-March/msg00067.html
++     * In particular:
++     *
++     * 	When the X window system was ported to 64-bit architectures, a
++     * rather peculiar design decision was made. 32-bit quantities such
++     * as Window IDs, atoms, etc, were kept as longs in the client side
++     * APIs, even when long was changed to 64 bits.
++     *
+      */
+     if (XGetWindowProperty(disp, win, xa_prop_name, 0, MAX_PROPERTY_VALUE_LEN / 4, False,
+             xa_prop_type, &xa_ret_type, &ret_format,     
+@@ -1441,6 +1451,8 @@ static gchar *get_property (Display *dis
+ 
+     /* null terminate the result to make string handling easier */
+     tmp_size = (ret_format / 8) * ret_nitems;
++    /* Correct 64 Architecture implementation of 32 bit data */
++    if(ret_format==32) tmp_size *= sizeof(long)/4;
+     ret = g_malloc(tmp_size + 1);
+     memcpy(ret, ret_prop, tmp_size);
+     ret[tmp_size] = '\0';
diff --git a/srcpkgs/wmctrl/template b/srcpkgs/wmctrl/template
index c65bf08b397..76f526a7e5a 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/wmctrl/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/wmctrl/template
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ build_style=gnu-configure
 short_desc="CLI tool to interact with EWMH compliant WM"
 maintainer="Carlo Dormeletti <carlo.dormeletti@email.it>"
 license="GPL-2"
+hostmakedepends="pkg-config"
+makedepends="libX11-devel libXmu-devel glib-devel"
 homepage="http://tomas.styblo.name/wmctrl/"
 distfiles="http://tomas.styblo.name/wmctrl/dist/wmctrl-${version}.tar.gz"
 checksum="d78a1efdb62f18674298ad039c5cbdb1edb6e8e149bb3a8e3a01a4750aa3cca9"