diff --git a/textproc/doxygen-devel/Portfile b/textproc/doxygen-devel/Portfile
index 2eb8d2d2b90..759267c626a 100644
--- a/textproc/doxygen-devel/Portfile
+++ b/textproc/doxygen-devel/Portfile
@@ -64,6 +64,9 @@ conflicts_build         libmd
 patchfiles-append       patch-src-portable_c.c.diff
 patchfiles-append       patch-CMakeLists.txt.diff
 
+# error: 'dirStr' in capture list does not name a variable
+patchfiles-append       patch-src-dotrunner.cpp.diff
+
 depends_build-append    port:bison \
                         port:flex \
                         path:bin/perl:perl5 \
diff --git a/textproc/doxygen-devel/files/patch-src-dotrunner.cpp.diff b/textproc/doxygen-devel/files/patch-src-dotrunner.cpp.diff
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..98ec5ed78d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/textproc/doxygen-devel/files/patch-src-dotrunner.cpp.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+See: https://github.com/doxygen/doxygen/issues/12118
+Fixed upstream in commit: https://github.com/doxygen/doxygen/commit/a9eb9243717b93a44dbd046cccd52b96bd7520d2
+diff --git a/src/dotrunner.cpp b/src/dotrunner.cpp
+index 63f72d4cbf..c359568115 100644
+--- src/dotrunner.cpp.orig
++++ src/dotrunner.cpp
+@@ -397,14 +397,15 @@ bool DotRunner::run(const DotJobs &dotJobs)
+         {
+           if (cmd.numDotFiles>0)
+           {
+-            auto process = [this,cmd,dirStr]() -> size_t
++            std::string locDirStr = dirStr;
++            auto process = [this,cmd,locDirStr]() -> size_t
+             {
+               int exitCode;
+               if ((exitCode = Portable::system(m_dotExe, cmd.arguments, FALSE)) != 0)
+               {
+                 err_full(cmd.firstJob->srcFile, 1,
+                     "Problems running dot: exit code={}, command='{}', dir='{}', arguments='{}'",
+-                    exitCode, m_dotExe, dirStr, cmd.arguments);
++                    exitCode, m_dotExe, locDirStr, cmd.arguments);
+               }
+               return cmd.numDotFiles;
+             };