diff --git a/packages/dev-db/mysql-workbench/files/mysql-workbench-6.3.9-cxx11.patch b/packages/dev-db/mysql-workbench/files/mysql-workbench-6.3.9-cxx11.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e8ed54a8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/dev-db/mysql-workbench/files/mysql-workbench-6.3.9-cxx11.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+Last-Update: 2015-10-24
+Forwarded: not-needed
+Bug-Upstream: https://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=78668
+From: Marcin Szalowicz
+Author: Dmitry Smirnov <onlyjob@member.fsf.org>
+Description: fix FTBFS
+ ~~~~
+ library/forms/view.cpp:515:32: error: cannot convert 'boost::signals2::signal<bool()>::result_type {aka boost::optional<bool>}' to 'bool' in return
+      return _signal_mouse_leave();
+                                 ^
+ library/forms/CMakeFiles/mforms.dir/build.make:1865: recipe for target 'library/forms/CMakeFiles/mforms.dir/view.cpp.o' failed
+ ~~~~
+
+--- a/library/forms/swig/mforms.i
++++ b/library/forms/swig/mforms.i
+@@ -532,9 +532,9 @@
+ 	void add_##method(PyObject *callback) { signal->connect(pycall_void_toolbaritem_fun(callback)); }
+ 
+ #define SWIG_ADD_SIGNAL_BOOL_INT_CALLBACK(method, signal)\
+         void add_##method(PyObject *callback) { signal->connect(pycall_bool_int_fun(callback)); }\
+-        bool call_##method(int i) { return (*signal)(i); }
++        bool call_##method(int i) { return *( (*signal)(i) ); }
+ 
+ #define SWIG_ADD_SIGNAL_VOID_ENTRYACTION_CALLBACK(method, signal)\
+ 	void add_##method(PyObject *callback) { signal->connect(pycall_void_entryaction_fun(callback)); }
+ 
+--- a/library/forms/view.cpp
++++ b/library/forms/view.cpp
+@@ -511,9 +511,9 @@
+ 
+ bool View::mouse_leave()
+ {
+   if (_signal_mouse_leave.num_slots() > 0)
+-    return _signal_mouse_leave();
++    return *_signal_mouse_leave();
+   return false;
+ }
+ 
+ //--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/packages/dev-db/mysql-workbench/mysql-workbench-6.3.9.exheres-0 b/packages/dev-db/mysql-workbench/mysql-workbench-6.3.9.exheres-0
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..047f9aac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/dev-db/mysql-workbench/mysql-workbench-6.3.9.exheres-0
@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+# Copyright 2017 Julian Ospald <hasufell@posteo.de>
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+WORK=${WORKBASE}/${PN}-community-${PV}-src
+
+require cmake [ api=2 ]
+
+SUMMARY="MySQL Workbench"
+HOMEPAGE="https://www.mysql.com/products/workbench/"
+DOWNLOADS="https://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQLGUITools/${PN}-community-${PV}-src.tar.gz
+    http://www.antlr3.org/download/antlr-3.4-complete.jar"
+
+LICENCES="GPL-2"
+SLOT="0"
+PLATFORMS="~amd64 ~x86"
+MYOPTIONS=""
+
+# not 100% sure about tinyxml and net-tools
+DEPENDENCIES="
+    build:
+        dev-lang/swig
+        virtual/jre
+        virtual/pkg-config
+    build+run:
+        app-arch/libzip
+        dev-cpp/cairomm:1.0
+        dev-cpp/ctemplate
+        dev-cpp/libsigc++:2
+        dev-db/libiodbc
+        dev-db/mysql-connector-c++
+        dev-db/vsqlite++
+        dev-lang/python:2.7[sqlite]
+        dev-libs/boost
+        dev-libs/glib:2
+        dev-libs/libxml2:2.0
+        dev-libs/pcre
+        dev-libs/tinyxml
+        dev-python/paramiko[python_abis:2.7]
+        dev-python/pexpect[python_abis:2.7]
+        dev-python/pycairo[python_abis:2.7]
+        gnome-bindings/atkmm:1.6
+        gnome-bindings/glibmm:2.4
+        gnome-bindings/gtkmm:3
+        gnome-bindings/pangomm:1.4
+        gnome-desktop/libgnome-keyring
+        gnome-platform/libglade:2
+        sci-libs/gdal
+        virtual/mysql
+        x11-dri/mesa
+        x11-libs/cairo
+        x11-libs/gdk-pixbuf:2.0
+        x11-libs/gtk+:3
+        x11-libs/libX11
+        x11-libs/pango
+    run:
+        sys-apps/net-tools
+"
+
+BUGS_TO="hasufell@posteo.de"
+
+src_prepare() {
+    edo install -D "${FETCHEDDIR}"/antlr-3.4-complete.jar \
+        "${WORKBASE}"/linux-res/bin/antlr-3.4-complete.jar
+
+    # fix python detection
+    edo sed -i \
+            -e '/find_package(PythonLibs 2.6)/d' \
+            "${CMAKE_SOURCE}"/CMakeLists.txt
+
+    cmake_src_prepare
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+    CMAKE_SRC_CONFIGURE_PARAMS=(
+        -DIODBC_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/$(exhost --target)/bin/iodbc-config"
+        -DLIB_INSTALL_DIR="/usr/$(exhost --target)/lib"
+        -DSHARE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/share
+    )
+
+    cmake_src_configure
+}
+