diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 1d81c98ddbe..45a55770f44 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -1172,3 +1172,4 @@ libopusfile.so.0 opusfile-0.2_1
 libgtkaml.so.0 libgtkaml-0.5.94_1
 libgtk-vnc-1.0.so.0 gtk2-vnc-0.4.4_2
 libgranite.so.0 granite-0.1.1_2
+libprotobuf-vala.so.0 libprotobuf-vala-0.1.0_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libprotobuf-vala b/srcpkgs/libprotobuf-vala
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..13d851c8f0c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libprotobuf-vala
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+protobuf-vala
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/protobuf-vala/libprotobuf-vala.template b/srcpkgs/protobuf-vala/libprotobuf-vala.template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..247590c369f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/protobuf-vala/libprotobuf-vala.template
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+# Template file for 'libprotobuf-vala'.
+#
+short_desc="${short_desc} -- shared library"
+
+do_install() {
+	vmove "usr/lib/*.so*" usr/lib
+}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/protobuf-vala/template b/srcpkgs/protobuf-vala/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0233639a27c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/protobuf-vala/template
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+# Template file for 'protobuf-vala'
+pkgname=protobuf-vala
+version=0.1.0
+revision=1
+build_style=gnu-configure
+configure_args="--disable-static"
+subpackages="lib${pkgname}"
+disable_parallel_build=yes
+depends="pkg-config glib-devel"
+makedepends="pkg-config libgee08-devel protobuf-devel vala-devel"
+short_desc="A plugin for the Google protocol buffer compiler to generate Vala code"
+maintainer="pancake <pancake@nopcode.org>"
+license="GPL-3"
+homepage="http://launchpad.net/protobuf-vala/"
+distfiles="${homepage}/trunk/${version}/+download/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.xz"
+checksum=c12547813fa22ee2b15967f17146b08e2a4d90800810fe63730332aea6777c48