diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 4e476beff39..787368349ef 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -2769,3 +2769,4 @@ libgcab-1.0.so.0 gcab-0.7_1
 libappstream-glib.so.8 appstream-glib-0.6.13_1
 libappstream-builder.so.8 appstream-glib-0.6.13_1
 libflatpak.so.0 flatpak-0.9.3_2
+libnanomsg.so.5 nanomsg-1.0.0_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/nanomsg-devel b/srcpkgs/nanomsg-devel
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..1feba150737
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/nanomsg-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+nanomsg
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/nanomsg/template b/srcpkgs/nanomsg/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6ff4e758118
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/nanomsg/template
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+# Template file for 'nanomsg'
+pkgname=nanomsg
+version=1.0.0
+revision=1
+short_desc='Simple, high-performance implementation of "scalability protocols"'
+homepage='http://nanomsg.org/'
+license="MIT"
+build_style=cmake
+distfiles="https://github.com/nanomsg/nanomsg/archive/$version.tar.gz>nanomsg-${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum="24afdeb71b2e362e8a003a7ecc906e1b84fd9f56ce15ec567481d1bb33132cc7"
+
+post_install() {
+	vlicense COPYING
+}
+
+nanomsg-devel_package() {
+	short_desc+=" - development files"
+	depends="${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision}"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/include
+		vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig
+		vmove usr/lib/*.so
+	}
+}