diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 10ff22549f..b3ed51af78 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -2453,3 +2453,4 @@ libfreeipmi.so.17 freeipmi-1.5.1_1
 libipmidetect.so.0 freeipmi-1.5.1_1
 libsmpeg2-2.0.so.0 smpeg2-2.0.0_1
 libedac.so.1 libedac-0.18_1
+libxlsreader.so.1 libxls-1.4.0_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libxls-devel b/srcpkgs/libxls-devel
new file mode 120000
index 0000000000..304c9f05c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libxls-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+libxls
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libxls/template b/srcpkgs/libxls/template
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..36bd7851c4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libxls/template
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+# Template file for 'libxls'
+pkgname=libxls
+version=1.4.0
+revision=1
+wrksrc="libxls"
+build_style=gnu-configure
+configure_args="--program-prefix=lib"
+short_desc="C library which can read Excel (xls) files"
+maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
+hostmakedepends="unzip"
+license="2-clause-BSD"
+homepage="http://libxls.sourceforge.net/"
+distfiles="${SOURCEFORGE_SITE}/${pkgname}/${pkgname}-${version}.zip"
+checksum=d3baea458a511d9b587a367528fa2a7fef410113ac9f6359834469b8f8d10dbd
+
+post_install() {
+	sed '/^$/q' include/libxls/xls.h >LICENSE
+	vlicense LICENSE
+}
+libxls-devel_package() {
+	short_desc+=" - development files"
+	depends="${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision}"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/include
+		vmove usr/lib/*.so
+		vmove usr/lib/*.a
+	}
+}