diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 9bf2dd50f0d..9e13275b74d 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -1231,3 +1231,4 @@ libspeechd.so.2 speech-dispatcher-0.8_1
 libre2.so.0 re2-20130115_1
 libminizip.so.1 minizip-1.2.7_1
 libsrtp.so.0 libsrtp-1.4.4_1
+libjsoncpp.so.0 jsoncpp-0.6.0rc2_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/jsoncpp-devel b/srcpkgs/jsoncpp-devel
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..66541f6761d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/jsoncpp-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+jsoncpp/
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/jsoncpp/files/jsoncpp.pc b/srcpkgs/jsoncpp/files/jsoncpp.pc
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3900f20e9a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/jsoncpp/files/jsoncpp.pc
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+prefix=/usr
+exec_prefix=${prefix}
+libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib
+includedir=${prefix}/include
+
+Name: jsoncpp
+Description: API for manipulating JSON
+Version: 0.6.0
+URL: http://jsoncpp.sourceforge.net/
+Libs: -L${libdir} -ljsoncpp
+Cflags: -I${includedir}/jsoncpp/
diff --git a/srcpkgs/jsoncpp/patches/jsoncpp_cross-compile.patch b/srcpkgs/jsoncpp/patches/jsoncpp_cross-compile.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0a104efa4ad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/jsoncpp/patches/jsoncpp_cross-compile.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+--- SConstruct.orig	2010-03-13 13:59:50.000000000 +0300
++++ SConstruct	2013-04-23 19:31:39.042439981 +0400
+@@ -119,6 +119,13 @@
+     env.Append( CPPDEFINES=[ "WIN32", "NDEBUG", "_MT" ] )
+ elif platform.startswith('linux-gcc'):
+     env.Tool( 'default' )
++    env.Replace(AS = os.environ['AS'])
++    env.Replace(AR = os.environ['AR'])
++    env.Replace(NM = os.environ['NM'])
++    env.Replace(CPP = os.environ['CPP'])
++    env.Replace(LD = os.environ['LD'])
++    env.Replace(CXX = os.environ['CXX'])
++    env.Replace(GCC = os.environ['GCC'])
+     env.Append( LIBS = ['pthread'], CCFLAGS = "-Wall" )
+     env['SHARED_LIB_ENABLED'] = True
+ else:
diff --git a/srcpkgs/jsoncpp/template b/srcpkgs/jsoncpp/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..cf0312ce588
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/jsoncpp/template
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+# Template build file for 'jsoncpp'.
+pkgname=jsoncpp
+version=0.6.0rc2
+_srcversion=0.6.0-rc2
+revision=1
+hostmakedepends="scons"
+wrksrc="${pkgname}-src-${_srcversion}"
+short_desc="A JSON implementation in C++"
+maintainer="ojab@ojab.ru"
+license="Public Domain or MIT"
+homepage="http://sourceforge.net/projects/${pkgname}"
+distfiles="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/${pkgname}/${pkgname}/${_srcversion}/${pkgname}-src-${_srcversion}.tar.gz"
+checksum=d4d193d163f520b08b9155cba978615892ca1359d77e3fb261fce2f86d09b283
+
+do_build() {
+	sed -i SConstruct -e "s/g++/${CXX}/g"
+	scons CCFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" LINKFLAGS="${LDFLAGS} " \
+		DESTDIR="${DESTDIR}" platform=linux-gcc
+	${CXX} -o libjsoncpp.so.0.0.0 -shared -Wl,-soname,libjsoncpp.so.0 \
+		buildscons/linux-gcc-*/src/lib_json/*.os -lpthread
+}
+
+do_install() {
+	vmkdir usr/lib
+	cp libjsoncpp.so.0.0.0 ${DESTDIR}/usr/lib/
+	ln -sf libjsoncpp.so.0.0.0 ${DESTDIR}/usr/lib/libjsoncpp.so
+	ln -sf libjsoncpp.so.0.0.0 ${DESTDIR}/usr/lib/libjsoncpp.so.0
+	vmkdir usr/include/jsoncpp/json
+	install -p -m 0644 include/json/*.h ${DESTDIR}/usr/include/jsoncpp/json
+}
+
+
+post_install() {
+	vinstall ${FILESDIR}/jsoncpp.pc 644 usr/lib/pkgconfig
+}
+
+jsoncpp_package() {
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove all
+	}
+}
+
+jsoncpp-devel_package() {
+	depends="jsoncpp>=${version}"
+	short_desc+=" - development files"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/include
+		vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig
+	}
+}