diff --git a/dev-nim/cligen/Manifest b/dev-nim/cligen/Manifest
index 4f3f3daabd..d8ccde2602 100644
--- a/dev-nim/cligen/Manifest
+++ b/dev-nim/cligen/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST cligen-1.7.8.tar.gz 453978 BLAKE2B 1e7497576aca594a5a0bb64b7c1af05d525d5a6ed27844316c62ff63971ad96e3150b08ff5e311ab940893b85815f62f28cb5d11c4f31f0844b6a054c309d345 SHA512 bed2c113371e26e943853cf8893edc90dd0c5e74c339889ec92ab73f66f2c90f32fcbcb45ab808888da60d75179255fe2519a9e5c52a96cf78af3f869d71f8f4
+DIST cligen-1.8.0.tar.gz 700454 BLAKE2B dbae91ca6808172225dab6e140b9e4c07a74d7072db34770d9b8295a5ee33eff68ff72f471ea7a5db2485226a4785212f6b2891f179fd0dfc8175bde8611a5df SHA512 61b0d882463f76888c16c2fc49b2ede54288e1939e103b074bdbb86ab2cfcc07468cb52004b6fe0c1d20371828652da8170407ac8ab70e3713d60da57894f091
diff --git a/dev-nim/cligen/cligen-1.8.0.ebuild b/dev-nim/cligen/cligen-1.8.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e900a1423b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-nim/cligen/cligen-1.8.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+# Copyright 2022-2024 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit nimble
+
+DESCRIPTION="Infer & generate command-line interface/option/argument parser"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://c-blake.github.io/cligen/
+	https://github.com/c-blake/cligen
+"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/c-blake/${PN}/archive/refs/tags/${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="ISC MIT"
+SLOT="${PV}"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+IUSE="examples"
+
+DOCS=( configs {MOTIVATION,README,RELEASE-NOTES,TODO}.md )
+
+set_package_url "https://github.com/c-blake/cligen"
+
+src_test() {
+	emake test V=1 NIM_EXTRA="--processing:off"
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	if use examples; then
+		docompress -x /usr/share/doc/${PF}/examples
+		dodoc -r examples
+	fi
+
+	nimble_src_install
+}