diff --git a/ports/entityx/fix-cmake.patch b/ports/entityx/fix-cmake.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..143cc52b1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ports/entityx/fix-cmake.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
+index 87309bf..23f5063 100644
+--- a/CMakeLists.txt
++++ b/CMakeLists.txt
+@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ include(${CMAKE_ROOT}/Modules/CheckIncludeFile.cmake)
+ include(CheckCXXSourceCompiles)
+ 
+ # Default compiler args
++if(0)
+ if ("${CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID}" MATCHES "(GNU|.*Clang)")
+ 	set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -pedantic -Werror -Wall -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-error=unused-variable -Wno-error=sign-compare -std=c++11")
+ 	set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_DEBUG "-O0 -g")
+@@ -41,6 +42,7 @@ elseif("${CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID}" STREQUAL "MSVC")
+ 	set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_RELEASE "/Ox -DNDEBUG")
+ 	set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_RELWITHDEBINFO "/Ox /Zi /FS /DEBUG")
+ endif()
++endif()
+ 
+ # if ("${CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID}" STREQUAL "Clang")
+ #     set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -Weverything -Wno-c++98-compat -Wno-shadow -Wno-padded -Wno-missing-noreturn -Wno-global-constructors")
+@@ -156,9 +158,9 @@ endif (ENTITYX_BUILD_TESTING)
+ 
+ configure_file(
+     ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/entityx/config.h.in
+-    ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/entityx/config.h
++    ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/entityx/config.h
+ )
+-
++include_directories(${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR})
+ 
+ if (NOT WINDOWS OR CYGWIN)
+     set(entityx_libs -lentityx)
+@@ -179,6 +181,7 @@ install(
+     DESTINATION "include"
+     FILES_MATCHING PATTERN "*.h"
+     )
++install(FILES ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/entityx/config.h DESTINATION include/entityx)
+ 
+ install(
+     TARGETS ${install_libs}
diff --git a/ports/entityx/portfile.cmake b/ports/entityx/portfile.cmake
index d35fb9da3..2c7978849 100644
--- a/ports/entityx/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/entityx/portfile.cmake
@@ -1,42 +1,21 @@
-# Common Ambient Variables:
-#   VCPKG_ROOT_DIR = <C:\path\to\current\vcpkg>
-#   TARGET_TRIPLET is the current triplet (x86-windows, etc)
-#   PORT is the current port name (zlib, etc)
-#   CURRENT_BUILDTREES_DIR = ${VCPKG_ROOT_DIR}\buildtrees\${PORT}
-#   CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR  = ${VCPKG_ROOT_DIR}\packages\${PORT}_${TARGET_TRIPLET}
-#
-
-if (VCPKG_LIBRARY_LINKAGE STREQUAL dynamic)
-    message(STATUS "Warning: Dynamic building not supported yet. Building static.")
-    set(VCPKG_LIBRARY_LINKAGE static)
-endif()
-
-if(NOT VCPKG_CRT_LINKAGE STREQUAL "dynamic")
-  message(FATAL_ERROR "Entityx only supports dynamic CRT linkage")
-endif()
-
 include(vcpkg_common_functions)
-set(SOURCE_PATH ${CURRENT_BUILDTREES_DIR}/src/entityx-1.2.0)
-vcpkg_download_distfile(ARCHIVE
-    URLS "https://github.com/alecthomas/entityx/archive/1.2.0.zip"
-    FILENAME "entityx-1.2.0.zip"
-    SHA512 4d7009f0412fbccd7bee72713d53424c3b4fa39da62b87729dd84a710a059db27e65ca27b927285c82af09997caea125d85571824133d9b71b4e3c4eebd9917c
-)
-vcpkg_extract_source_archive(${ARCHIVE})
 
-if (VCPKG_CRT_LINKAGE STREQUAL dynamic)
-    SET(SHARED_FLAG ON)
-else()
-    SET(SHARED_FLAG OFF)
-endif()
+vcpkg_check_linkage(ONLY_STATIC_LIBRARY)
+
+vcpkg_from_github(
+    OUT_SOURCE_PATH SOURCE_PATH
+    REPO alecthomas/entityx
+    REF 1.2.0
+    SHA512 682aa302cb4495666aab2c0b39a286f88cb28046bc8b2deb603402105e15e4b9692e32807077abc3f465e42a4e0f34a7e69169bc74fc5579a5c3d0e17b02fdb8
+    HEAD_REF master
+    PATCHES fix-cmake.patch
+)
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
     OPTIONS
-    # OPTIONS_RELEASE -DOPTIMIZE=1
-    # OPTIONS_DEBUG -DDEBUGGABLE=1
-    -DENTITYX_BUILD_SHARED=${SHARED_FLAG}
-    -DENTITYX_BUILD_TESTING=false
+        -DENTITYX_BUILD_TESTING=false
 )
 
 vcpkg_install_cmake()