diff --git a/textproc/py-pygccxml/Makefile b/textproc/py-pygccxml/Makefile
index ac16440436eb..c100d3980875 100644
--- a/textproc/py-pygccxml/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/py-pygccxml/Makefile
@@ -1,27 +1,30 @@
 PORTNAME=	pygccxml
 DISTVERSIONPREFIX=	v
-DISTVERSION=	2.3.0
+DISTVERSION=	2.4.0
 CATEGORIES=	textproc python
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Python package for easy C++ declarations navigation
 WWW=		https://github.com/CastXML/pygccxml
 
 LICENSE=	BSL
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE.rst
 
+BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PY_SETUPTOOLS} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
 RUN_DEPENDS=	castxml:textproc/castxml
+py39_RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}importlib-metadata>=4.6:devel/py-importlib-metadata@${PY_FLAVOR}
 TEST_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}coverage>0:devel/py-coverage@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}coveralls>0:devel/py-coveralls@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pycodestyle>0:devel/py-pycodestyle@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		python
-USE_PYTHON=	distutils autoplist pytest # tests fail due to missing dependencies, see https://github.com/CastXML/pygccxml/issues/160
+USE_PYTHON=	pep517 autoplist pytest # tests fail due to missing dependencies, see https://github.com/CastXML/pygccxml/issues/160
 
 USE_GITHUB=	yes
 GH_ACCOUNT=	CastXML
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/textproc/py-pygccxml/distinfo b/textproc/py-pygccxml/distinfo
index f41dfe26247e..63ad4e59ca26 100644
--- a/textproc/py-pygccxml/distinfo
+++ b/textproc/py-pygccxml/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1691046764
-SHA256 (CastXML-pygccxml-v2.3.0_GH0.tar.gz) = bc20be367074af644e8ab4faca04dc905c6b93de0717bcbe92ef8e2a3934b91b
-SIZE (CastXML-pygccxml-v2.3.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 3165248
+TIMESTAMP = 1692691673
+SHA256 (CastXML-pygccxml-v2.4.0_GH0.tar.gz) = d59867809f8008ec48a5567a7203bb4c130ff203a8ddd708c945690749723c70
+SIZE (CastXML-pygccxml-v2.4.0_GH0.tar.gz) = 3165189