diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index e26ee0f5464..54f715d7914 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -3077,3 +3077,8 @@ libzuluCrypt-exe.so.1.2.0 zulucrypt-5.2.0_1
 libzuluCrypt.so.1.2.0 zulucrypt-5.2.0_1
 libnfdump-1.6.15.so nfdump-1.6.15_1
 libttfautohint.so.1 ttfautohint-1.8.1_1
+libkrfbprivate.so.5.0 krfb-17.08.1_1
+libarcan_shmif.so.0.11 arcan-0.5.4.3_1
+libarcan_shmif_ext.so.0.11 arcan-0.5.4.3_1
+libarcan_shmif_server.so.0.11 arcan-0.5.4.3_1
+libarcan_tui.so.0.11 arcan-0.5.4.3_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/arcan-devel b/srcpkgs/arcan-devel
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..fb6a95edcfe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/arcan-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+arcan
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/arcan/template b/srcpkgs/arcan/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3f84284a858
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/arcan/template
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+# Template file for 'arcan'
+pkgname=arcan
+version=0.5.4.3
+revision=1
+build_style=cmake
+build_wrksrc=src
+short_desc="Combined display server, multimedia framework and game engine"
+maintainer="Piraty <piraty1@inbox.ru>"
+license="GPL-2"
+homepage="https://arcan-fe.com/"
+distfiles="https://github.com/letoram/${pkgname}/archive/${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum="94a64dbce762c3bf81d3282414ffd337b0eb4b47dbdf35f02c3f5095dabf81cf"
+
+# the _lwa part of the build relies on a patched openAL implementation
+# that is statically linked
+_versionOpenal=0.5.4
+distfiles+=" https://github.com/letoram/openal/archive/${_versionOpenal}.tar.gz>openal_arcan.${_versionOpenal}.tar.gz"
+checksum+=" 3a50a87c05b67c466a868cc77f8dc7f9cfc9466aeeafcd823daca0d108c504da"
+
+only_for_archs="i686 i686-musl x86_64 x86_64-musl"
+
+configure_args=" -DDISTR_TAG='Void Linux'
+ -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DBUILD_TAG='release' -DSTATIC_SQLITE3=Off
+ -DSTATIC_OPENAL=Off -DSTATIC_FREETYPE=Off
+ -DVIDEO_PLATFORM=egl-dri -DENABLE_SIMD=On -DENABLE_LTO=Off"
+
+makedepends="libgbm libGL libdrm-devel MesaLib-devel libEGL LuaJIT-devel
+ freetype-devel sqlite-devel libusb-devel libxkbcommon-devel harfbuzz-devel
+ libopenal-devel vlc-devel ffmpeg-devel bzip2-devel liblzma-devel
+ libvncserver-devel  $(vopt_if tesseract tesseract-ocr-devel)"
+
+build_options="tesseract"
+desc_option_tesseract="Enable support for OCR via tesseract"
+build_options_default="tesseract"
+
+post_extract() {
+	# provide patched openAL
+	ln -s ${XBPS_BUILDDIR}/openal-${_versionOpenal} ${XBPS_BUILDDIR}/arcan-${version}/external/git/openal
+}
+
+post_install() {
+	# need suid for drmMaster, dropped immediately after open+master
+	chmod u+s ${DESTDIR}/usr/bin/arcan
+}
+
+arcan-devel_package() {
+	short_desc+=" - development files"
+	depends="${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision}"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/lib/*.so
+		vmove usr/lib/*.a
+		vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig
+		vmove usr/include
+	}
+}