diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 81e6d6760c7..035f6f68271 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -2827,6 +2827,7 @@ libbcunit.so.1 bcunit-3.0_1
 libzbar.so.0 libzbar-0.10_1
 libzbargtk.so.0 libzbar-0.10_1
 libzbarqt.so.0 libzbar-0.10_1
+libargtable2.so.0 argtable-2.13_1
 libomxil-bellagio.so.0 libomxil-bellagio-0.9.3_1
 libomxdynamicloader.so.0 libomxil-bellagio-0.9.3_1
 libomxaudio_effects.so.0 libomxil-bellagio-0.9.3_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/argtable-devel b/srcpkgs/argtable-devel
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..ac4859189f4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/argtable-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+argtable
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/argtable-doc b/srcpkgs/argtable-doc
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..ac4859189f4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/argtable-doc
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+argtable
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/argtable/template b/srcpkgs/argtable/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0935c52e564
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/argtable/template
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+# Template file for 'argtable'
+pkgname=argtable
+version=2.13
+revision=1
+wrksrc="${pkgname}${version//./-}"
+build_style=gnu-configure
+short_desc="ANSI C command line parser"
+maintainer="Simon Whelan <si.whelan@gmail.com>"
+license="LGPL-v2"
+homepage="http://argtable.sourceforge.net/"
+distfiles="${SOURCEFORGE_SITE}/argtable/argtable2-13.tar.gz"
+checksum=8f77e8a7ced5301af6e22f47302fdbc3b1ff41f2b83c43c77ae5ca041771ddbf
+
+argtable-devel_package() {
+	short_desc+=" - development files"
+	depends="${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision}"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/include
+		vmove usr/lib/*.so
+		vmove usr/lib/*.a
+		vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig
+		vmove usr/share/man
+	}
+}
+
+argtable-doc_package() {
+	short_desc+=" - documentation"
+	depends="${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision}"
+	noarch=yes
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/share/doc
+	}
+}