diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 030561fc3e..c73ce022c9 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -941,3 +941,4 @@ libchicken.so.6			libchicken		chicken-devel
 libmdb.so.0.0.0			libmdb			mdbtools-devel
 libmdbsql.so.0			libmdb			mdbtools-devel
 libkmod.so.1			libkmod			libkmod-devel
+libestr.so.0			libestr			libestr-devel
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libestr-devel b/srcpkgs/libestr-devel
new file mode 120000
index 0000000000..c60adce298
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libestr-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+libestr
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libestr/depends b/srcpkgs/libestr/depends
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..02d581ed9c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libestr/depends
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+abi_depends=">=0.1.2"
+api_depends="${abi_depends}"
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libestr/libestr-devel.template b/srcpkgs/libestr/libestr-devel.template
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7ae5f50f6d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libestr/libestr-devel.template
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+# Template file for 'libestr-devel'.
+#
+short_desc="${short_desc} - development files"
+long_desc="${long_desc}
+
+ This package contains files for development, headers, static libs, etc."
+
+Add_dependency run glibc-devel
+Add_dependency run libestr
+
+do_install() {
+	vmove usr/include usr
+	vmove "usr/lib/*.a" usr/lib
+	vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig usr/lib
+}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libestr/libestr.rshlibs b/srcpkgs/libestr/libestr.rshlibs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..631aa1dda4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libestr/libestr.rshlibs
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+libc.so.6
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libestr/template b/srcpkgs/libestr/template
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8cbd71d66c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libestr/template
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+# Template file for 'libestr'
+pkgname=libestr
+version=0.1.2
+homepage="http://libestr.adiscon.com"
+distfiles="$homepage/files/download/$pkgname-$version.tar.gz"
+build_style=gnu-configure
+short_desc="C library for string processing"
+maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
+license="LGPL-2.1"
+checksum=0e8b95374fa271dc2afdfadfc9afc0f5826252a1b698ddea1474d5600a7c66ca
+long_desc="
+ This package provides a C library with some essentials for string processing."
+
+subpackages="$pkgname-devel"