diff --git a/packages/devel/libffi/build b/packages/devel/libffi/build
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..5b53318074
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/devel/libffi/build
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+. config/options $1
+
+cd $PKG_BUILD
+./configure --host=$TARGET_NAME \
+            --build=$HOST_NAME \
+            --prefix=/usr \
+            --sysconfdir=/etc \
+            --disable-static \
+            --enable-shared \
+            --disable-debug \
+
+make
+
+$MAKEINSTALL
diff --git a/packages/devel/libffi/install b/packages/devel/libffi/install
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..165665d2fd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/devel/libffi/install
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+. config/options $1
+
+mkdir -p $INSTALL/usr/lib
+  cp -P $PKG_BUILD/.libs/*.so* $INSTALL/usr/lib
diff --git a/packages/devel/libffi/meta b/packages/devel/libffi/meta
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6be4cbeded
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/devel/libffi/meta
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+PKG_NAME="libffi"
+PKG_VERSION="3.0.9"
+PKG_REV="1"
+PKG_ARCH="any"
+PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
+PKG_SITE="http://sourceware.org/$PKG_NAME/"
+PKG_URL="ftp://sourceware.org/pub/$PKG_NAME/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
+PKG_DEPENDS=""
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain"
+PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
+PKG_SECTION="devel"
+PKG_SHORTDESC="Foreign Function Interface Library"
+PKG_LONGDESC="The libffi library provides a portable, high level programming interface to various calling conventions. This allows a programmer to call any function specified by a call interface description at run-time."
+PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
diff --git a/packages/devel/libffi/url b/packages/devel/libffi/url
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2b1189449d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/devel/libffi/url
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+ftp://sourceware.org/pub/libffi/libffi-3.0.9.tar.gz