diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 5171181d93d..cf34a609cfa 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -1468,3 +1468,4 @@ libhunspell-1.3.so.0 libhunspell-1.3.2_1
 libstdlog.so.0 liblogging-1.0.0_1
 libdom.so.0 libdom-0.0.1_1
 libslang.so.2 slang-2.2.4_1
+libtre.so.5 tre-0.8.0_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/tre-devel b/srcpkgs/tre-devel
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..b528b4255ab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/tre-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+tre
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/tre/template b/srcpkgs/tre/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d129bf60297
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/tre/template
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+# Template file for 'tre'
+pkgname=tre
+version=0.8.0
+revision=1
+build_style=gnu-configure
+configure_args="--enable-static --without-alloca"
+short_desc="The free and portable approximate regex matching library"
+maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
+license="Simplified BSD"
+homepage="http://laurikari.net/tre/"
+distfiles="http://laurikari.net/tre/tre-${version}.tar.bz2"
+checksum=8dc642c2cde02b2dac6802cdbe2cda201daf79c4ebcbb3ea133915edf1636658
+
+tre-devel_package() {
+	short_desc+=" - development files"
+	depends="tre>=${version}_${revision}"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/include
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.a"
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.so"
+		vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig
+	}
+}