diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 8e679d90bc..a580e22343 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -2646,3 +2646,8 @@ libpayeeidentifier_iban_bic.so.4 kmymoney-4.8.0_1
 libkmm_payeeidentifier.so kmymoney-4.8.0_1
 libbotan-1.10.so.1 botan-1.10.13_1
 libswipl.so.7.2 swi-prolog-7.2.3_5
+libpcre2-16.so.0 libpcre2-10.22_1
+libpcre2-32.so.0 libpcre2-10.22_1
+libpcre2-8.so.0 libpcre2-10.22_1
+libpcre2-posix.so.1 libpcre2-10.22_1
+
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libpcre2 b/srcpkgs/libpcre2
new file mode 120000
index 0000000000..85faacad4d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libpcre2
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+pcre2
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/pcre2-devel b/srcpkgs/pcre2-devel
new file mode 120000
index 0000000000..85faacad4d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/pcre2-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+pcre2
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/pcre2/template b/srcpkgs/pcre2/template
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bcc7c295c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/pcre2/template
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+# Template file for 'pcre2'
+pkgname=pcre2
+version=10.22
+revision=1
+build_style=gnu-configure
+configure_args="--with-pic --enable-pcre2-16 --enable-pcre2-32
+--enable-pcre2test-libreadline --enable-pcre2grep-libz --enable-pcre2grep-libbz2
+--enable-newline-is-anycrlf --enable-jit --enable-static"
+hostmakedepends="automake libtool"
+makedepends="zlib-devel bzip2-devel libedit-devel readline-devel"
+short_desc="Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (2nd version)"
+maintainer="Enno Boland <gottox@voidlinux.eu>"
+homepage="http://www.pcre.org/"
+license="BSD"
+distfiles="ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre2-${version}.tar.bz2"
+checksum=b2b44619f4ac6c50ad74c2865fd56807571392496fae1c9ad7a70993d018f416
+
+post_install() {
+	vlicense LICENCE
+}
+
+pre_configure() {
+	autoreconf -fi
+}
+
+libpcre2_package() {
+	short_desc+=" - shared libraries"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.so.*"
+	}
+}
+
+pcre2-devel_package() {
+	depends="zlib-devel bzip2-devel libpcre2>=${version}_${revision}"
+	short_desc+=" - development files"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/include
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.a"
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.so"
+		vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig
+		vmove usr/share/man/man3
+		vmove usr/share/doc
+		vmove usr/bin/pcre2-config
+	}
+}