diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 4ff4ea3d7fb..c413ed1e4fe 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -2398,7 +2398,7 @@ libnetfilter_queue.so.1 libnetfilter_queue-1.0.2_1
 libfilezilla.so.0 libfilezilla-0.3.1_1
 libtommath.so.1 libtommath-1.0_1
 libKF5ItemViews.so.5 kitemviews-5.26.0_1
-libunicorn.so.0 unicorn-0.9_1
+libunicorn.so.1 unicorn-1.0_1
 libglyphy.so.0 glyphy-0.0.20160104_1
 libSwiften.so.0 swiften-2.0_1
 libfreehand-0.1.so.1 libfreehand-0.1.1_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/unicorn/template b/srcpkgs/unicorn/template
index 2588f47b7ff..bbe891a5d24 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/unicorn/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/unicorn/template
@@ -1,23 +1,19 @@
 # Template file for 'unicorn'
 pkgname=unicorn
-version=0.9
-revision=3
+version=1.0
+revision=1
 only_for_archs="x86_64 x86_64-musl i686 i686-musl"
-hostmakedepends="pkg-config python-devel python3-devel"
-makedepends="glib-devel"
+hostmakedepends="python-devel python3-devel python-setuptools python3-setuptools"
 short_desc="Lightweight multi-platform, multi-architecture CPU emulator framework"
 maintainer="Michael Gehring <mg@ebfe.org>"
 license="GPL-2"
 homepage="http://www.unicorn-engine.org/"
 distfiles="https://github.com/unicorn-engine/unicorn/archive/${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=1ca03b1c8f6360335567b528210713461e839d47c4eb7c676ba3aa4f72b8cf10
+checksum=27efa24e465f3eca9a1fa8f7f456f6fecd91beeba0b4be21b34308040047def9
 
 post_extract() {
 	# don't build the samples
 	echo "clean:" > samples/Makefile
-	# fix unicorn.pc paths
-	sed 's,libdir=$(LIBDIR),libdir=$(PREFIX)/${LIBDIRARCH},g' -i Makefile
-	sed 's,includedir=$(INCDIR),includedir=$(PREFIX)/include,g' -i Makefile
 }
 
 do_build() {
@@ -48,24 +44,27 @@ unicorn-devel_package() {
 		vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig
 	}
 }
+
 unicorn-python_package() {
 	replaces="python-unicorn>=0"
-	depends="${sourcepkg}-devel>=${version}_${revision}"
+	depends="${sourcepkg}-devel>=${version}_${revision} python-setuptools"
 	short_desc+=" - Python2 bindings"
 	pycompile_module="unicorn"
 	pkg_install() {
 		vmove ${py2_sitelib}
 	}
 }
+
 unicorn-python3_package() {
 	replaces="python3.4-unicorn>=0"
-	depends="${sourcepkg}-devel>=${version}_${revision}"
+	depends="${sourcepkg}-devel>=${version}_${revision} python3-setuptools"
 	short_desc+=" - Python3 bindings"
 	pycompile_module="unicorn"
 	pkg_install() {
 		vmove ${py3_sitelib}
 	}
 }
+
 python3.4-unicorn_package() {
 	build_style=meta
 	short_desc+=" - Python3.4 bindings (transitional dummy package)"