diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 6c63b078a0b..5afdf972b5e 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -1260,3 +1260,4 @@ libzzip-0.so.13 zziplib-0.13.62_1
 libdb-5.3.so libdb-5.3.21_1
 libdb_cxx-5.3.so libdb-cxx-5.3.21_1
 libsdb.so.0 sdb-0.6.2_1
+libcares.so.2 c-ares-1.10.0_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/c-ares-devel b/srcpkgs/c-ares-devel
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..80dbece4209
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/c-ares-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+c-ares
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/c-ares/template b/srcpkgs/c-ares/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e81fd888b31
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/c-ares/template
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+# Template file for 'c-ares'
+pkgname=c-ares
+version=1.10.0
+revision=1
+build_style=gnu-configure
+short_desc="C library that performs DNS requests and name resolves asynchronously"
+maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
+license="MIT"
+homepage="http://c-ares.haxx.se/"
+distfiles="http://c-ares.haxx.se/download/$pkgname-$version.tar.gz"
+checksum=3d701674615d1158e56a59aaede7891f2dde3da0f46a6d3c684e0ae70f52d3db
+
+c-ares-devel_package() {
+	depends="${sourcepkg}>=${version}"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/include
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.a"
+		vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig
+		vmove usr/share/man
+	}
+}
+
+c-ares_package() {
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr
+	}
+}