diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 85807a53c6..22e35e2688 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -3878,3 +3878,5 @@ libhidrd_strm.so.0 hidrd-0.2.0_1
 libhidrd_fmt.so.0 hidrd-0.2.0_1
 libjcat.so.1 libjcat-0.1.2_1
 libmatio.so.9 matio-1.5.17_2
+libvips.so.42 libvips-8.9.2_1
+libvips-cpp.so.42 libvips-8.9.2_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libvips b/srcpkgs/libvips
new file mode 120000
index 0000000000..6faa116eb8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libvips
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+vips
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libvips-devel b/srcpkgs/libvips-devel
new file mode 120000
index 0000000000..6faa116eb8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libvips-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+vips
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libvips-doc b/srcpkgs/libvips-doc
new file mode 120000
index 0000000000..6faa116eb8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libvips-doc
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+vips
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/vips/template b/srcpkgs/vips/template
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5fc54fbbc3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/vips/template
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+# Template file for 'vips'
+pkgname=vips
+version=8.9.2
+revision=1
+build_style=gnu-configure
+build_helper=gir
+configure_args="--enable-introspection=$(vopt_if gir yes no)"
+hostmakedepends="pkgconf"
+makedepends="
+ $(vopt_if hdf5 hdf5-devel)
+ $(vopt_if hdf5 matio-devel)
+ cfitsio-devel
+ expat-devel
+ fftw-devel
+ giflib-devel
+ glib-devel
+ lcms2-devel
+ libexif-devel
+ libgsf-devel
+ libheif-devel
+ libimagequant-devel
+ libjpeg-turbo-devel
+ libopenexr-devel
+ libpng-devel
+ librsvg-devel
+ libwebp-devel
+ orc-devel
+ poppler-glib-devel
+ tiff-devel
+"
+short_desc="Fast image processing with low memory needs"
+maintainer="Isaac Freund <ifreund@ifreund.xyz>"
+license="LGPL-2.1-or-later"
+homepage="https://libvips.github.io/libvips/"
+distfiles="https://github.com/libvips/libvips/releases/download/v${version}/vips-${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=ae8491b1156cd2eb9cbbaa2fd6caa1dc9ed3ded0b70443d28cd7fea798ab2a27
+python_version=3
+
+build_options="gir hdf5"
+build_options_default="gir"
+desc_option_hdf5="HDF5 support"
+
+if [ -z "$CROSS_BUILD" ]; then
+	build_options_default+=" hdf5"
+fi
+
+libvips_package() {
+	short_desc+=" - library"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.so.*"
+		if [ "$build_option_gir" ]; then
+			vmove usr/lib/girepository-1.0
+		fi
+	}
+}
+
+libvips-devel_package() {
+	depends="${makedepends} ${sourcepkg}-${version}_${revision}"
+	short_desc+=" - development files"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/include
+		vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.a"
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.so"
+		if [ "$build_option_gir" ]; then
+			vmove usr/share/gir-1.0
+		fi
+	}
+}
+
+libvips-doc_package() {
+	archs=noarch
+	short_desc+=" - documentation"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/share/gtk-doc
+	}
+}