diff --git a/devel/highway/Makefile b/devel/highway/Makefile
index 1f3ddb68e0e6..2e36d0b3e0a2 100644
--- a/devel/highway/Makefile
+++ b/devel/highway/Makefile
@@ -1,18 +1,21 @@
 PORTNAME=	highway
 DISTVERSION=	1.0.1
 CATEGORIES=	devel
 
+PATCH_SITES=	https://github.com/${GH_ACCOUNT}/${GH_PROJECT}/commit/
+PATCHFILES+=	6a822e2a9ae3.patch:-p1 # https://github.com/google/highway/issues/946
+
 MAINTAINER=	jbeich@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Performance-portable, length-agnostic SIMD with runtime dispatch
 
 LICENSE=	APACHE20
 
 TEST_DEPENDS=	googletest>0:devel/googletest
 
 USES=		cmake:testing compiler:c++11-lib
 USE_GITHUB=	yes
 GH_ACCOUNT=	google
 CMAKE_ON=	BUILD_SHARED_LIBS HWY_SYSTEM_GTEST
 CMAKE_OFF+=	${CMAKE_TESTING_ON}
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/highway/distinfo b/devel/highway/distinfo
index 0056f169583b..28bfcfd4c118 100644
--- a/devel/highway/distinfo
+++ b/devel/highway/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
 TIMESTAMP = 1661360790
 SHA256 (google-highway-1.0.1_GH0.tar.gz) = 7ca6af7dc2e3e054de9e17b9dfd88609a7fd202812b1c216f43cc41647c97311
 SIZE (google-highway-1.0.1_GH0.tar.gz) = 1730746
+SHA256 (6a822e2a9ae3.patch) = dcc115c8daad2dfeea3101d0945f25f96c2aa3cc27a50c8c048fd8abcb7a6dc4
+SIZE (6a822e2a9ae3.patch) = 960
diff --git a/devel/highway/files/patch-CMakeLists.txt b/devel/highway/files/patch-CMakeLists.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 31d2e65bba3e..000000000000
--- a/devel/highway/files/patch-CMakeLists.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-https://github.com/google/highway/issues/946
-
---- CMakeLists.txt.orig	2022-08-24 16:31:11 UTC
-+++ CMakeLists.txt
-@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ if(UNIX AND NOT APPLE)
- set_target_properties(hwy PROPERTIES
-   LINK_DEPENDS ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/hwy/hwy.version)
- if(UNIX AND NOT APPLE)
--  if(NOT HWY_EMSCRIPTEN)
-+  if(CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID STREQUAL "GNU")
-     # For GCC __atomic_store_8, see #887
-     target_link_libraries(hwy atomic)
-   endif()