diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index e2754f46d0..3167c35a14 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -1741,3 +1741,4 @@ libnetfilter_log.so.1 libnetfilter_log-1.0.1_1
 libnetfilter_log_libipulog.so.1 libnetfilter_log-1.0.1_1
 libnetfilter_acct.so.1 libnetfilter_acct-1.0.2_1
 libnetfilter_conntrack.so.3 libnetfilter_conntrack-1.0.4_1
+libmsgpack.so.3 msgpack-0.5.9_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/msgpack-devel b/srcpkgs/msgpack-devel
new file mode 120000
index 0000000000..b3ae8a0157
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/msgpack-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+msgpack
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/msgpack/template b/srcpkgs/msgpack/template
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0bc5fa19e8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/msgpack/template
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+# Template file for 'msgpack'
+pkgname=msgpack
+version=0.5.9
+revision=1
+wrksrc="msgpack-c-cpp-${version}"
+build_style=cmake
+hostmakedepends="cmake"
+makedepends="zlib-devel"
+short_desc="An efficient binary serialization format"
+maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
+license="Apache-2.0"
+homepage="http://msgpack.org/"
+distfiles="https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-c/archive/cpp-${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=f86bf09323770825cc1c8cc49790cd4eafef6e6f1c9e70cfb3f9159c3501c277
+
+pre_configure() {
+	sed -i '/INSTALL/s,msgpack.pc,build/msgpack.pc,g' CMakeLists.txt
+}
+
+msgpack-devel_package() {
+	short_desc+=" - development files"
+	depends="${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision}"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/include
+		vmove usr/lib/*.a
+		vmove usr/lib/*.so
+		vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig
+	}
+}