diff --git a/srcpkgs/widelands/files/disable-testing.patch b/srcpkgs/widelands/files/disable-testing.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6c15b249323
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/widelands/files/disable-testing.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+--- CMakeLists.txt	2016-11-10 08:28:01.000000000 +0100
++++ CMakeLists.txt	2017-12-19 15:31:31.468125411 +0100
+@@ -229,18 +229,7 @@
+   )
+ endif (NOT DEFINED WL_VERSION)
+ 
+-# Enable testing.
+-include(CTest)
+-enable_testing()
+-
+-# Run a test after a normal compile. This magic is needed as 'make test' will
+-# not rebuild tests:
+-# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/733475/cmake-ctest-make-test-doesnt-build-tests
+-add_custom_target(_run_all_tests ALL
+-  COMMAND ${CMAKE_CTEST_COMMAND} --output-on-failure
+-  WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}
+-  DEPENDS wl_tests
+-)
++# No testing.
+ 
+ install (
+   FILES ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/VERSION
diff --git a/srcpkgs/widelands/files/widelands.sh b/srcpkgs/widelands/files/widelands.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index f2b795ea566..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/widelands/files/widelands.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-#
-# Startup script for widelands to recognize the user's LANG setting, if any.
-
-WL_DATA="/usr/share/widelands"
-WL_LOCALE="$WL_DATA/locale"
-WL_LANG="$LANG"
-[ -z "$WL_LANG" ] && WL_LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
-
-exec /usr/share/widelands/widelands --datadir="$WL_DATA" --localedir="$WL_LOCALE" --language="$WL_LANG"
diff --git a/srcpkgs/widelands/template b/srcpkgs/widelands/template
index 9afd77c6f26..616e8bcaff4 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/widelands/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/widelands/template
@@ -1,18 +1,17 @@
 # Template file for 'widelands'
 pkgname=widelands
 version=19
-revision=1
+revision=2
 wrksrc=${pkgname}-build${version}-src
 build_style=cmake
 configure_args="
  -DOPENGL_INCLUDE_DIR=${XBPS_CROSS_BASE}/usr/include
- -DLUA_LIBRARY=${XBPS_CROSS_BASE}/usr/lib/liblua5.1.a
- -DLUA_INCLUDE_DIR=${XBPS_CROSS_BASE}/usr/include/lua5.1
- -DWL_INSTALL_DATADIR=share/widelands
- -DWL_INSTALL_BINDIR=share/widelands"
+ -DOPTION_BUILD_WEBSITE_TOOLS=OFF
+ -DWL_INSTALL_DATADIR=share/widelands"
 hostmakedepends="python pkg-config"
-makedepends="boost-devel icu-devel minizip-devel glu-devel glew-devel SDL2_gfx-devel
- SDL2_image-devel SDL2_net-devel SDL2_mixer-devel SDL2_ttf-devel lua51-devel"
+makedepends="boost-devel icu-devel minizip-devel gettext-devel glu-devel
+ glew-devel SDL2_gfx-devel SDL2_image-devel SDL2_net-devel
+ SDL2_mixer-devel SDL2_ttf-devel"
 depends="${pkgname}-data-${version}_${revision}"
 short_desc="A real-time strategy game"
 maintainer="Jürgen Buchmüller <pullmoll@t-online.de>"
@@ -23,11 +22,16 @@ checksum="e511f9d26828a2b71b64cdfc6674e6e847543b2da73961ab882acca36c7c01a6"
 
 CXXFLAGS="-Wno-maybe-uninitialized"
 
-nocross="Currently can't be cross compiled due to target format binaries being executed on the host"
+pre_configure() {
+	if [ -n "$CROSS_BUILD" ]; then
+		# Upstream could have defined a flag to disable tests,
+		# or make sure that test binaries are in host format...
+		patch -p0 < ${FILESDIR}/disable-testing.patch
+	fi
+}
 
 post_install() {
 	vinstall ${FILESDIR}/${pkgname}.desktop 644 usr/share/applications
-	vbin ${FILESDIR}/${pkgname}.sh ${pkgname}
 }
 
 widelands-data_package() {