diff --git a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/libgovirt/auto-disable-incompatible-compiler-warnings.patch b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/libgovirt/auto-disable-incompatible-compiler-warnings.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..85806bfcd892
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/libgovirt/auto-disable-incompatible-compiler-warnings.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
+index d5c3627..2bd692a 100644
+--- a/meson.build
++++ b/meson.build
+@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ govirt_global_cflags = ['-std=c99',
+                         '-Woverride-init',
+                         '-Wno-unused-parameter']
+
+-foreach arg : govirt_global_cflags
++foreach arg : compiler.get_supported_arguments(govirt_global_cflags)
+   add_project_arguments(arg, language : 'c')
+ endforeach
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/libgovirt/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/libgovirt/default.nix
index 0815781c21f7..c93f8a689730 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/libgovirt/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/libgovirt/default.nix
@@ -1,46 +1,48 @@
 { lib
 , stdenv
-, fetchurl
-, glib
+, fetchzip
 , gnome
-, librest
-, libsoup
+, meson
 , pkg-config
 , gobject-introspection
+, ninja
+, glib
+, librest_1_0
 }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "libgovirt";
-  version = "0.3.8";
+  version = "0.3.9";
 
   outputs = [ "out" "dev" ];
 
-  src = fetchurl {
+  src = fetchzip {
     url = "mirror://gnome/sources/libgovirt/${lib.versions.majorMinor version}/${pname}-${version}.tar.xz";
-    sha256 = "HckYYikXa9+p8l/Y+oLAoFi2pgwcyAfHUH7IqTwPHfg=";
+    sha256 = "sha256-6RDuJTyaVYlO4Kq+niQyepom6xj1lqdBbyWL/VnZUdk=";
   };
 
-  patches = lib.optionals stdenv.isDarwin [
-    # The flag breaks the build on darwin and doesn't seem necessary
-    ./no-version-script-ld-flag.patch
+  patches = [
+    # https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgovirt/-/issues/9
+    ./auto-disable-incompatible-compiler-warnings.patch
   ];
+  NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = lib.optionalString stdenv.cc.isClang (lib.concatStringsSep " " [
+    "-Wno-typedef-redefinition"
+    "-Wno-missing-field-initializers"
+    "-Wno-cast-align"
+  ]);
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [
+    meson
     pkg-config
     gobject-introspection
-  ];
-
-  buildInputs = [
-    libsoup
+    ninja
   ];
 
   propagatedBuildInputs = [
     glib
-    librest
+    librest_1_0
   ];
 
-  enableParallelBuilding = true;
-
   passthru = {
     updateScript = gnome.updateScript {
       packageName = pname;
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/libgovirt/no-version-script-ld-flag.patch b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/libgovirt/no-version-script-ld-flag.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index a837c3bf0642..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/libgovirt/no-version-script-ld-flag.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- a/govirt/Makefile.in
-+++ b/govirt/Makefile.in
-@@ -511,8 +511,7 @@
- libgovirt_la_LDFLAGS = \
- 	-version-info $(LT_CURRENT):$(LT_REVISION):$(LT_AGE)	\
- 	-export-dynamic						\
--	-no-undefined						\
--	-Wl,--version-script=$(srcdir)/govirt.sym
-+	-no-undefined
- 
- libgovirt_la_CFLAGS = \
- 	$(WARNINGFLAGS_C)
-
-Diff finished.  Fri Oct 28 10:36:38 2022