diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index c15c1fb3f2b..43b2e852e39 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -1735,3 +1735,4 @@ libawt_xawt.so openjdk-jre-8u20_1
 libjava.so openjdk-jre-8u20_1
 libjli.so openjdk-jre-8u20_1
 libjvm.so openjdk-jre-8u20_1
+libucl.so.0 libucl-0.5.2_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libucl-devel b/srcpkgs/libucl-devel
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..c706bf9582d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libucl-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+libucl
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libucl/template b/srcpkgs/libucl/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..1c91718375f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libucl/template
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+# Template file for 'libucl'
+pkgname=libucl
+version=0.5.2
+revision=1
+build_style=gnu-configure
+hostmakedepends="automake libtool git pkg-config"
+makedepends="libcurl-devel"
+short_desc="Universal configuration library parser"
+maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
+license="2-clause-BSD"
+homepage="https://github.com/vstakhov/libucl"
+
+do_fetch() {
+	git clone -b ${version} git://github.com/vstakhov/libucl.git ${pkgname}-${version}
+}
+pre_configure() {
+	NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh
+}
+post_install() {
+	vlicense COPYING LICENSE
+}
+
+libucl-devel_package() {
+	short_desc+=" - development files"
+	depends="${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision}"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/include
+		vmove usr/lib/*.a
+		vmove usr/lib/*.so
+		vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig
+		vmove usr/share
+	}
+}