diff --git a/mingw-w64-benchmark/PKGBUILD b/mingw-w64-benchmark/PKGBUILD
index f76256d15f5d4..d21818c28b969 100644
--- a/mingw-w64-benchmark/PKGBUILD
+++ b/mingw-w64-benchmark/PKGBUILD
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@
 _realname=benchmark
 pkgbase=mingw-w64-${_realname}
 pkgname="${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-${_realname}"
-pkgver=1.4.1
+_gtest_ver=1.8.1
+pkgver=1.5.0
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="A microbenchmark support library, by Google (mingw-w64)"
 arch=('any')
@@ -15,11 +16,15 @@ makedepends=("${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-gcc"
              "${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-gtest")
 options=('staticlibs' 'strip')
 source=("${_realname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz::https://github.com/google/benchmark/archive/v${pkgver}.tar.gz"
+        googletest-release-${_gtest_ver}.tar.gz::https://github.com/google/googletest/archive/release-${_gtest_ver}.tar.gz
         "benchmark-mingw.patch")
-sha256sums=('f8e525db3c42efc9c7f3bc5176a8fa893a9a9920bbd08cef30fb56a51854d60d'
+sha256sums=('3c6a165b6ecc948967a1ead710d4a181d7b0fbcaa183ef7ea84604994966221a'
+            '9bf1fe5182a604b4135edc1a425ae356c9ad15e9b23f9f12a02e80184c3a249c'
             '00a34d29f1dc4339513c4ebabd00560b446624a3380edc98a57c0c43484473f7')
 
 prepare() {
+  cp -r googletest-release-${_gtest_ver} ${_realname}-${pkgver}/googletest
+
   cd "${srcdir}/${_realname}-${pkgver}"
   patch -Np1 -i "${srcdir}/benchmark-mingw.patch"
   sed -i "s|v0.0.0|v${pkgver}|g" "cmake/GetGitVersion.cmake"