diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index dac7e9ffef1..3aabcb2c1dd 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -1927,3 +1927,4 @@ libmosquitto.so.1 libmosquitto-1.4_1
 libmosquittopp.so.1 libmosquittopp-1.4_1
 libmpv.so.1 mpv-0.8.0_2
 libmbedtls.so.8 mbedtls-1.3.10_1
+libdmtx.so.0 libdmtx-0.7.4_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libdmtx-devel b/srcpkgs/libdmtx-devel
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..49011c27fc1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libdmtx-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+libdmtx
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libdmtx/template b/srcpkgs/libdmtx/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..17cf79804e6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libdmtx/template
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+# Template file for 'libdmtx'
+pkgname=libdmtx
+version=0.7.4
+revision=1
+build_style=gnu-configure
+maintainer="Dominik Honnef <dominik@honnef.co>"
+license="BSD-2"
+homepage="http://www.libdmtx.org/"
+short_desc="Library for reading and writing Data Matrix barcodes"
+distfiles="$SOURCEFORGE_SITE/${pkgname}/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.bz2"
+checksum=b62c586ac4fad393024dadcc48da8081b4f7d317aa392f9245c5335f0ee8dd76
+
+libdmtx-devel_package() {
+	short_desc+=" - development files"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/include
+		vmove usr/share/man
+		vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.a"
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.so"
+	}
+}