diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 06de3e9940..ba6f391c90 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -1786,3 +1786,4 @@ libledger.so.3 libledger-3.1_1
 libksba.so.8 libksba-1.3.1_1
 libpth.so.20 pth-2.0.7_1
 libgltf-0.0.so.0 libgltf-0.0.2_1
+libabw-0.1.so.1 libabw-0.1.0_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libabw-devel b/srcpkgs/libabw-devel
new file mode 120000
index 0000000000..85dd58f45c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libabw-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+libabw
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libabw-tools b/srcpkgs/libabw-tools
new file mode 120000
index 0000000000..85dd58f45c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libabw-tools
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+libabw
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libabw/template b/srcpkgs/libabw/template
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7984bf5ee0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libabw/template
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+# Template file for 'libabw'
+pkgname=libabw
+version=0.1.0
+revision=1
+build_style=gnu-configure
+short_desc="Library that parses the file format of AbiWord documents"
+maintainer="Enno Boland <eb@s01.de>"
+license="MPL"
+homepage="https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/DLP/Libraries/libabw"
+distfiles="http://dev-www.libreoffice.org/src/${pkgname}/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.xz"
+makedepends="gperf librevenge-devel boost-devel"
+hostmakedepends="libtool pkg-config libxml2-devel perl"
+checksum=ee99b280b7af226a48fd9afd395cc10bef2d8e4f844151277e90793706dfc0c1
+
+libabw-devel_package() {
+	depends="libabw>=${version}_${revision} $makedepends"
+	short_desc+=" - development files"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/include
+		vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.so"
+	}
+}
+
+libabw-tools_package() {
+	short_desc+=" - tools"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/bin
+	}
+}