diff --git a/audio/zrythm/Makefile b/audio/zrythm/Makefile
index 0b4437ad1159..733bf955ddbc 100644
--- a/audio/zrythm/Makefile
+++ b/audio/zrythm/Makefile
@@ -1,67 +1,72 @@
 PORTNAME=	zrythm
 DISTVERSIONPREFIX=	v
 DISTVERSION=	1.0.0-alpha.25.1.22
 CATEGORIES=	audio
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Modern music production system, also known as DAW
 
 LICENSE=	AGPLv3
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/COPYING
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	bash:shells/bash \
 		help2man:misc/help2man \
 		${LOCALBASE}/lib/libbacktrace.a:devel/libbacktrace \
 		kf5-breeze-icons>0:x11-themes/kf5-breeze-icons
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libaudec.so:audio/libaudec \
 		libavcodec.so:multimedia/ffmpeg \
 		libcyaml.so:textproc/libcyaml \
 		libgtop-2.0.so:devel/libgtop \
 		libcgraph.so:graphics/graphviz \
 		libcurl.so:ftp/curl \
 		libfftw3_threads.so:math/fftw3 \
 		libfftw3f_threads.so:math/fftw3-float \
 		libguile-2.2.so:lang/guile2 \
 		libjack.so:audio/jack \
 		libjson-glib-1.0.so:devel/json-glib \
 		liblilv-0.so:audio/lilv \
 		libpcre.so:devel/pcre \
 		libpcre2-8.so:devel/pcre2 \
 		libportaudio.so:audio/portaudio \
 		libpulse.so:audio/pulseaudio \
 		libreproc.so:devel/reproc \
 		librubberband.so:audio/rubberband \
 		libsamplerate.so:audio/libsamplerate \
 		libserd-0.so:devel/serd \
 		libsmf.so:audio/libsmf \
 		libsndfile.so:audio/libsndfile \
 		libsord-0.so:devel/sord \
 		libasound.so:audio/alsa-lib \
 		libsratom-0.so:audio/sratom \
 		libsuil-0.so:audio/suil \
 		libvamp-hostsdk.so:audio/vamp-plugin-sdk \
 		libxxhash.so:devel/xxhash \
 		libyaml.so:textproc/libyaml \
 		libzstd.so:archivers/zstd
 RUN_DEPENDS=	gsettings-desktop-schemas>=0:devel/gsettings-desktop-schemas \
 		kf5-breeze-icons>0:x11-themes/kf5-breeze-icons
 
 USES=		compiler:c11 desktop-file-utils gettext-tools gettext-runtime gnome libtool localbase:ldflags \
 		meson pkgconfig python:3.5+,build shared-mime-info shebangfix xorg
 USE_GITHUB=	yes
 USE_GNOME=	atk cairo gdkpixbuf2 glib20 gtk30 gtksourceview3 libxml2 pango
 USE_XORG=	x11
 
 SHEBANG_FILES=	scripts/collect_translatables.sh
 
 GLIB_SCHEMAS=	org.zrythm.Zrythm.gschema.xml
 
-
 LDFLAGS+=	${LOCALBASE}/lib/libfftw3_threads.so ${LOCALBASE}/lib/libfftw3f_threads.so # these libs are required but aren't returned by pkg-config for fftw3
 
 BINARY_ALIAS=	git=false python3=${PYTHON_CMD}
 
+.include <bsd.port.options.mk>
+
+.if ${ARCH} == powerpc64
+MESON_ARGS=	-Db_lto=false
+.endif
+
 post-patch: # https://git.zrythm.org/zrythm/zrythm/issues/299
 	@${REINPLACE_CMD} 's|<malloc.h>|<stdlib.h>|' ${WRKSRC}/ext/midilib/src/*.c
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/audio/zrythm/files/patch-ext_qm-dsp_meson.build b/audio/zrythm/files/patch-ext_qm-dsp_meson.build
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b5249bf0ca47
--- /dev/null
+++ b/audio/zrythm/files/patch-ext_qm-dsp_meson.build
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+--- ext/qm-dsp/meson.build.orig	2021-10-13 01:44:29 UTC
++++ ext/qm-dsp/meson.build
+@@ -39,9 +39,6 @@ qm_dsp_lib = static_library (
+     '-Wall',
+     '-Wextra',
+     '-O3',
+-    '-msse',
+-    '-msse2',
+-    '-mfpmath=sse',
+     '-ftree-vectorize',
+     '-DUSE_PTHREADS',
+     ],