diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 2fb02e2fbfa..bcf3a4aea3a 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -1974,3 +1974,4 @@ libxmp.so.4 libxmp-4.3.7_1
 libOpenImageIO_Util.so.1.5 openimageio-1.5.13_1
 libOpenImageIO.so.1.5 openimageio-1.5.13_1
 libOpenColorIO.so.1 opencolorio-1.0.8_1
+libyaml-cpp.so.0.5 yaml-cpp-0.5.2_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/yaml-cpp-devel b/srcpkgs/yaml-cpp-devel
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..dc88639a9e0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/yaml-cpp-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+yaml-cpp
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/yaml-cpp/template b/srcpkgs/yaml-cpp/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f86c14081e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/yaml-cpp/template
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+# Template file for 'yaml-cpp'
+pkgname=yaml-cpp
+version=0.5.2
+revision=1
+wrksrc=${pkgname}-release-${version}
+build_style=cmake
+configure_args="-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON"
+hostmakedepends="cmake"
+makedepends="boost-devel"
+short_desc="A YAML parser and emitter in C++"
+maintainer="Duncaen <mail@duncano.de>"
+license="MIT"
+homepage="https://github.com/jbeder/yaml-cpp"
+distfiles="https://github.com/jbeder/${pkgname}/archive/release-${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=6fb92f6f5925e0af918ffbb90acf19b7b88706ebcd40fc186b7caa76609b6350
+
+yaml-cpp-devel_package() {
+	depends="yaml-cpp-${version}_${revision}"
+	short_desc+=" - Development files"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/include
+		vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.so"
+	}
+}