diff --git a/common/options.description b/common/options.description
index 06360211a2..46e24a140e 100644
--- a/common/options.description
+++ b/common/options.description
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ desc_option_lz4="Enable support for LZ4 compression format"
 desc_option_lzo="Enable support for LZO compression format"
 desc_option_microhttpd="Enable support for microhttpd"
 desc_option_mpcdec="Enable support for the Musepack decoder"
+desc_option_native_build="Enable instruction subsets supported by the build computer"
 desc_option_notify="Enable support for desktop notifications (libnotify)"
 desc_option_nvenc="Enable support for NVENC codecs"
 desc_option_openblas="Enable support for OpenBLAS accelerated linear algebra"
diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 548401e239..76a40ce5fe 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -3984,6 +3984,7 @@ libpari-gmp.so.7 pari-2.13.0_1
 libpari-gmp-tls.so.7 pari-2.13.2_1
 libtree-sitter.so.0 tree-sitter-0.19.0_1
 libgtkdatabox.so.1 gtkdatabox3-1.0.0_1
+libgf2x.so.3 gf2x-1.3.0_1
 libwayland-client++.so.0 libwaylandpp-0.2.8_1
 libwayland-cursor++.so.0 libwaylandpp-0.2.8_1
 libwayland-egl++.so.0 libwaylandpp-0.2.8_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/gf2x-devel b/srcpkgs/gf2x-devel
new file mode 120000
index 0000000000..4542295e8d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/gf2x-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+gf2x
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/gf2x/template b/srcpkgs/gf2x/template
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b056ac4f87
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/gf2x/template
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+# Template file for 'gf2x'
+pkgname=gf2x
+version=1.3.0
+revision=1
+wrksrc=gf2x-gf2x-${version}
+build_style=gnu-configure
+hostmakedepends="automake libtool"
+short_desc="C/C++ library for fast arithmetic in GF(2)[x]"
+maintainer="Gonzalo Tornaría <tornaria@cmat.edu.uy>"
+license="GPL-3.0-or-later"
+homepage="https://gitlab.inria.fr/gf2x/gf2x"
+distfiles="https://gitlab.inria.fr/gf2x/gf2x/-/archive/gf2x-${version}/gf2x-gf2x-${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=11bcf98b620c60c2ee3b4460b02b7be741f14cfdc26b542f22c92950926575e0
+
+build_options="native_build"
+
+if [ -z "$build_option_native_build" ]; then
+	# this disables sse3, ssse3, sse41, pclmul
+	configure_args="--disable-sse3"
+fi
+
+pre_configure() {
+	autoreconf -fi
+}
+
+gf2x-devel_package() {
+	depends="${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision}"
+	short_desc+=" - development files"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/include
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.a"
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.so"
+		vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig
+	}
+}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/gf2x/update b/srcpkgs/gf2x/update
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5045036101
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/gf2x/update
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+pkgname=gf2x-gf2x