diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 9948c8a8b7c..551e022d1ea 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -3049,3 +3049,4 @@ libembb_mtapi_c.so embb-devel-1.0.0_1
 libembb_mtapi_network_c.so embb-devel-1.0.0_1
 libembb_base_cpp.so embb-devel-1.0.0_1
 libembb_base_c.so embb-devel-1.0.0_1
+libmatio.so.4 matio-1.5.11_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/matio-devel b/srcpkgs/matio-devel
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..16cfa90e877
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/matio-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+matio
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/matio/template b/srcpkgs/matio/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..baa261fbc0a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/matio/template
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+# Template file for 'matio'
+pkgname=matio
+version=1.5.11
+revision=1
+build_style=gnu-configure
+hostmakedepends="libtool"
+makedepends="zlib-devel hdf5-devel"
+depends="zlib hdf5"
+short_desc="MATLAB MAT file I/O library"
+maintainer="Florian Eich <flrn@nrmncr.net>"
+license="BSD-2"
+homepage="https://github.com/tbeu/matio"
+distfiles="https://github.com/tbeu/matio/releases/download/v${version}/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=0ccced0c55c9c2cdc21348b7e16447843402d729ffaadd6135767faad7c9cf0b
+
+if [ -n "$CROSS_BUILD" ]; then
+	configure_args+=" ac_cv_va_copy=C99"
+fi
+
+post_install() {
+	vlicense COPYING
+}
+
+matio-devel_package() {
+	short_desc+=" - development files"
+	depends="${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision}"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove /usr/include
+		vmove /usr/lib/*.a
+		vmove /usr/lib/*.so
+	}
+}