diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 2ae7ddc86..e6cbb2ded 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -40,3 +40,6 @@
 [submodule "vendor/zig-objc"]
 	path = vendor/zig-objc
 	url = https://github.com/mitchellh/zig-objc.git
+[submodule "vendor/libxev"]
+	path = vendor/libxev
+	url = https://github.com/mitchellh/libxev.git
diff --git a/build.zig b/build.zig
index e14e97ed3..0a8093e80 100644
--- a/build.zig
+++ b/build.zig
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ const freetype = @import("pkg/freetype/build.zig");
 const harfbuzz = @import("pkg/harfbuzz/build.zig");
 const imgui = @import("pkg/imgui/build.zig");
 const js = @import("vendor/zig-js/build.zig");
+const libxev = @import("vendor/libxev/build.zig");
 const libxml2 = @import("vendor/zig-libxml2/libxml2.zig");
 const libuv = @import("pkg/libuv/build.zig");
 const libpng = @import("pkg/libpng/build.zig");
@@ -275,6 +276,7 @@ fn addDeps(
     step.addPackage(harfbuzz.pkg);
     step.addPackage(imgui.pkg);
     step.addPackage(glfw.pkg);
+    step.addPackage(libxev.pkg);
     step.addPackage(libuv.pkg);
     step.addPackage(pixman.pkg);
     step.addPackage(stb_image_resize.pkg);
diff --git a/vendor/libxev b/vendor/libxev
new file mode 160000
index 000000000..17d2cad49
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vendor/libxev
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 17d2cad4918997e36da50416acae3afd70a63308