diff --git a/ports/sfml/CMakeLists.txt b/ports/sfml/CMakeLists.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index f6ab262350..0000000000
--- a/ports/sfml/CMakeLists.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.6)
-project(SFML)
-
-include_directories(include)
-include_directories(src)
-
-if(NOT BUILD_SHARED_LIBS)
-    add_definitions(-DSFML_STATIC)
-endif()
-add_definitions(-DUNICODE -D_UNICODE)
-add_definitions(-D_CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS -D_SCL_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS)
-
-# import SFML's 'sfml_add_library' macro and find_package utils
-
-set(VERSION_MAJOR 2)
-include(cmake/Config.cmake)
-set(SFML_GENERATE_PDB ON)
-include(cmake/Macros.cmake)
-set(CMAKE_MODULE_PATH ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake/Modules/)
-
-add_subdirectory(src/SFML/System)
-add_subdirectory(src/SFML/Window)
-add_subdirectory(src/SFML/Network)
-add_subdirectory(src/SFML/Audio)
-add_subdirectory(src/SFML/Graphics)
-
-if(WIN32)
-    set(LIB_SUFFIX /manual-link)
-    add_subdirectory(src/SFML/Main)
-    unset(LIB_SUFFIX)
-endif()
-
-if(NOT DEFINED SFML_SKIP_HEADERS)
-    install(DIRECTORY include/ DESTINATION include)
-endif()
diff --git a/ports/sfml/CONTROL b/ports/sfml/CONTROL
index e27af66463..b4b3e968e1 100644
--- a/ports/sfml/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/sfml/CONTROL
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 Source: sfml
-Version: 2.4.2-3
+Version: 2.5.0
 Description: Simple and fast multimedia library
 Build-Depends: freetype, libflac, libjpeg-turbo, libogg, libvorbis, openal-soft, stb, freeglut (!uwp&&!windows)
diff --git a/ports/sfml/portfile.cmake b/ports/sfml/portfile.cmake
index e0aa980808..f07a199e65 100644
--- a/ports/sfml/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/sfml/portfile.cmake
@@ -5,10 +5,13 @@ vcpkg_from_github(OUT_SOURCE_PATH SOURCE_PATH
     REF 2.5.0
     HEAD_REF master
     SHA512 94306dcbed7d68bb7e226cd91e25950a07bcf393988c4bb79f9de3555c18c78cae4573e911235f712e711a7c02a614bf370df32b8d85240d2f08142327e05076
+    PATCHES "${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/portfile.cmake"
 )
 
 file(REMOVE_RECURSE ${SOURCE_PATH}/extlibs)
-file(COPY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/CMakeLists.txt DESTINATION ${SOURCE_PATH})
+# Without this, we get error: list sub-command REMOVE_DUPLICATES requires list to be present.
+file(MAKE_DIRECTORY ${SOURCE_PATH}/extlibs/libs)
+file(WRITE ${SOURCE_PATH}/extlibs/libs/x "")
 
 if(VCPKG_CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME AND NOT VCPKG_CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME STREQUAL "WindowsStore")
     message("SFML currently requires the following libraries from the system package manager:\n    libudev\n    libx11\n    libxrandr\n    opengl\n\nThese can be installed on Ubuntu systems via apt-get install libx11-dev libxrandr-dev libxi-dev libudev-dev mesa-common-dev")
@@ -16,11 +19,15 @@ endif()
 
 vcpkg_configure_cmake(
     SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
-    OPTIONS_DEBUG
-        -DSFML_SKIP_HEADERS=ON
+    OPTIONS
+        -DSFML_BUILD_FRAMEWORKS=OFF
+        -DSFML_USE_SYSTEM_DEPS=ON
+        -DSFML_MISC_INSTALL_PREFIX=share/sfml
+        -DSFML_GENERATE_PDB=OFF
 )
 
 vcpkg_install_cmake()
+vcpkg_fixup_cmake_targets(CONFIG_PATH lib/cmake/SFML)
 vcpkg_copy_pdbs()
 
 # don't force users to define SFML_STATIC while using static library
@@ -34,7 +41,14 @@ if(EXISTS ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/lib/sfml-main.lib)
     file(REMOVE ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/lib/sfml-main.lib)
     file(COPY ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/debug/lib/sfml-main-d.lib DESTINATION ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/debug/lib/manual-link)
     file(REMOVE ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/debug/lib/sfml-main-d.lib)
+    file(GLOB FILES "${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/share/sfml/SFML*Targets-*.cmake")
+    foreach(FILE ${FILES})
+        file(READ "${FILE}" _contents)
+        string(REPLACE "/lib/sfml-main" "/lib/manual-link/sfml-main" _contents "${_contents}")
+        file(WRITE "${FILE}" "${_contents}")
+    endforeach()
 endif()
 
+file(REMOVE_RECURSE ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/debug/include ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/debug/share)
 
 file(INSTALL ${SOURCE_PATH}/license.md DESTINATION ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/share/sfml RENAME copyright)