diff --git a/libs/libowfat/Makefile b/libs/libowfat/Makefile
index 01bd25a1f6..99eba1c255 100644
--- a/libs/libowfat/Makefile
+++ b/libs/libowfat/Makefile
@@ -1,26 +1,24 @@
-#
-# Copyright (C) 2010-2014 OpenWrt.org
-#
 # This is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.
 # See /LICENSE for more information.
 #
 
 include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
 
-LOWFAT_VERSION=0.30
-
 PKG_NAME:=libowfat
-PKG_VERSION:=$(LOWFAT_VERSION)
+PKG_VERSION:=0.31
 PKG_RELEASE:=1
 
 PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.xz
 PKG_SOURCE_URL:=http://www.fefe.de/libowfat
-PKG_MD5SUM:=f0119532ea834ce9e80afe49d7d85512
+PKG_HASH:=d1e4ac1cfccbb7dc51d77d96398e6302d229ba7538158826c84cb4254c7e8a12
 PKG_MAINTAINER:=Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
 PKG_LICENSE:=GPL-2.0
 PKG_LICENSE_FILES:=COPYING
 
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS += libowfat/host
+
 include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/package.mk
+include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/host-build.mk
 
 # set to 1 to enable debugging
 DEBUG=
@@ -39,7 +37,13 @@ TARGET_CFLAGS += $(FPIC)
 LOWFAT_MAKEOPTS = $(TARGET_CONFIGURE_OPTS) \
 	CFLAGS="$(TARGET_CFLAGS) -I$(PKG_BUILD_DIR) -I$(STAGING_DIR)/usr/include" \
 	DEBUG="$(DEBUG)" \
-	VERSION="$(LOWFAT_VERSION)" \
+	VERSION="$(PKG_VERSION)" \
+	OS="Linux"
+
+LOWFAT_HOST_MAKEOPTS = $(HOST_CONFIGURE_OPTS) \
+	CFLAGS="$(HOST_CFLAGS) -I$(HOST_BUILD_DIR) -I$(STAGING_DIR_HOSTPKG)/include" \
+	DEBUG="$(DEBUG)" \
+	VERSION="$(PKG_VERSION)" \
 	OS="Linux"
 
 # work around a nasty gcc bug
@@ -51,6 +55,15 @@ define Build/Compile
 	$(MAKE) -C $(PKG_BUILD_DIR) $(LOWFAT_MAKEOPTS)
 endef
 
+define Host/Compile
+	$(MAKE) -C $(HOST_BUILD_DIR) $(LOWFAT_HOST_MAKEOPTS) ent
+endef
+
+define Host/Install
+	$(INSTALL_DIR) $(STAGING_DIR_HOSTPKG)/bin
+	$(CP) $(HOST_BUILD_DIR)/ent $(STAGING_DIR_HOSTPKG)/bin/libowfat-ent
+endef
+
 define Build/InstallDev
 	mkdir -p $(1)/usr/include/libowfat
 	$(CP) $(PKG_BUILD_DIR)/*.h $(1)/usr/include/libowfat
@@ -58,4 +71,5 @@ define Build/InstallDev
 	$(CP) $(PKG_BUILD_DIR)/*.a $(1)/usr/lib
 endef
 
+$(eval $(call HostBuild))
 $(eval $(call BuildPackage,libowfat))
diff --git a/libs/libowfat/patches/001-fixbuild.patch b/libs/libowfat/patches/001-fixbuild.patch
index a21fcd0ee2..5f4f06df35 100644
--- a/libs/libowfat/patches/001-fixbuild.patch
+++ b/libs/libowfat/patches/001-fixbuild.patch
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 --- a/GNUmakefile
 +++ b/GNUmakefile
-@@ -278,6 +278,8 @@ socket_accept4.o socket_accept6.o socket
+@@ -343,6 +343,8 @@ socket_accept4.o socket_accept6.o socket
  socket_local6.o socket_recv4.o socket_recv6.o socket_remote4.o \
  socket_remote6.o: havesl.h
  
@@ -9,3 +9,11 @@
  dns_nd6.o fmt_xlong.o scan_xlong.o fmt_ip6_flat.o $(TEXTCODE_OBJS): haveinline.h
  
  iob_send.o scan_ip6if.o: havealloca.h
+@@ -372,6 +374,6 @@ update:
+ 	dl -n http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/entities.json
+ 
+ entities.h: entities.json ent
+-	./ent
++	libowfat-ent
+ 
+ scan_html.o: entities.h