diff --git a/srcpkgs/anope/files/anope/run b/srcpkgs/anope/files/anope/run
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ca9b72cedb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/anope/files/anope/run
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+exec anopeservices \
+    --confdir=/etc/anope \
+    --dbdir=/var/lib/anope \
+    --localedir=/usr/share/locale \
+    --logdir=/var/log/anope \
+    --modulesdir=/usr/lib/anope \
+    --nofork
diff --git a/srcpkgs/anope/patches/fix-musl-cross.patch b/srcpkgs/anope/patches/fix-musl-cross.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6e6050aed5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/anope/patches/fix-musl-cross.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+diff --git a/src/language.cpp b/src/language.cpp
+index 8b7b0ee..9a97093 100644
+--- src/language.cpp
++++ src/language.cpp
+@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ const char *Language::Translate(const NickCore *nc, const char *string)
+ 
+ #if GETTEXT_FOUND
+ 
+-#ifdef __USE_GNU_GETTEXT
++#if defined(__USE_GNU_GETTEXT) && defined(_nl_msg_cat_cntr)
+ extern "C" int _nl_msg_cat_cntr;
+ #endif
+ 
+@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ const char *Language::Translate(const char *lang, const char *string)
+ 	if (!lang || !*lang)
+ 		lang = Config->DefLanguage.c_str();
+ 
+-#ifdef __USE_GNU_GETTEXT
++#if defined(__USE_GNU_GETTEXT) && defined(_nl_msg_cat_cntr)
+ 	++_nl_msg_cat_cntr;
+ #endif
+ 
+
diff --git a/srcpkgs/anope/template b/srcpkgs/anope/template
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0c3eb61486
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/anope/template
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+# Template file for 'anope'
+pkgname=anope
+version=2.0.6
+revision=1
+wrksrc="${pkgname}-${version}-source"
+build_style=cmake
+configure_args="-DINSTDIR=../install -DRUNGROUP=_anope -DDEFUMASK=077
+ -DUSE_PCH=OFF"
+short_desc="Set of IRC Services designed for flexibility and ease of use"
+maintainer="ametisf <ametisf@gmail.com>"
+license="GPL-2.0-only"
+homepage="https://www.anope.org/"
+distfiles="https://github.com/anope/anope/releases/download/${version}/anope-${version}-source.tar.gz"
+checksum=546377755af33f5497a1f5811dfab7d289eaf07b644e4babd1de8d95b9936816
+
+system_accounts="_anope"
+make_dirs="
+ /etc/anope 755 root root
+ /var/lib/anope 755 _anope _anope
+ /var/log/anope 755 _anope _anope"
+
+pre_configure() {
+	# prevent cmake from building include/version and running
+	# because it breaks cross compiling (cmake can't differentiate
+	# between CXX and CXX_FOR_HOST)
+	rm -v include/CMakeLists.txt
+}
+
+pre_build() {
+	# replace removed include/version functionality
+	(
+		source src/version.sh
+		echo "#define VERSION_EXTRA \"$VERSION_EXTRA\""
+		echo "#define VERSION_MAJOR $VERSION_MAJOR"
+		echo "#define VERSION_MINOR $VERSION_MINOR"
+		echo "#define VERSION_PATCH $VERSION_PATCH"
+	) > build/include/version.h
+	echo "#define BUILD ${revision}" > build/include/build.h
+}
+
+do_install() {
+	cd build
+	make install
+
+	cd ${wrksrc}/install
+
+	vbin bin/anopesmtp
+	vbin bin/services anopeservices
+
+	for conffile in conf/*example.conf; do
+	    vsconf ${conffile}
+	done
+
+	vmkdir /usr/share/anope
+	vcopy data/* /usr/share/anope
+
+	vmkdir /usr/lib/anope
+	vcopy lib/modules /usr/lib/anope
+
+	vcopy locale /usr/share
+
+	vsv anope
+}