diff --git a/vars/build.vars b/vars/build.vars
index e0cae0f..b89acac 100644
--- a/vars/build.vars
+++ b/vars/build.vars
@@ -601,7 +601,7 @@ NATIVE_PACKAGES_DEPS_PACKAGES="
 libatomic_ops bdwgc clzip expat libxml2 alsa_lib apr apr_util bzip2
 libdmtx libressl libnettle libunistring gnutls curl libz lmdb libpcap
 libpng libjpeg_turbo tiff giflib lcms2 openjpeg libffi gdbm geoip pcre gettext_tiny
-glib gzip libarchive musl_compat musl_fts libbsd libpipeline libtelnet
+glib gzip libarchive musl_compat musl_fts libzip libbsd libpipeline libtelnet
 libevent libfetch libogg libvorbis libflac libtheora libsasl2 libshine libsndfile
 libgpg_error libassuan libfirm libgcrypt libksba libudns lua ncurses
 ncursestw ncursesw libreadline libxslt libtirpc npth popt file xz zstd
@@ -741,6 +741,9 @@ NATIVE_PACKAGES_DEPS_PYTHON="${PREFIX}/bin/python2";
 : ${PKG_MUSL_FTS_SHA256SUM:=32dfe02768f1d3d91ab04df4fbdb7922cd34cd529ce7081a78c3ca8b8652d1ee};
 : ${PKG_MUSL_FTS_VERSION:=1.2.7};
 : ${PKG_MUSL_FTS_URL:=https://midipix.org/mirror/musl-fts/musl-fts-${PKG_MUSL_FTS_VERSION}.tar.xz};
+: ${PKG_LIBZIP_SHA256SUM:=b3de4d4bd49a01e0cab3507fc163f88e1651695b6b9cb25ad174dbe319d4a3b4};
+: ${PKG_LIBZIP_VERSION:=1.5.2};
+: ${PKG_LIBZIP_URL:=https://libzip.org/download/libzip-${PKG_LIBZIP_VERSION}.tar.xz};
 : ${PKG_LIBBSD_SHA256SUM:=56d835742327d69faccd16955a60b6dcf30684a8da518c4eca0ac713b9e0a7a4};
 : ${PKG_LIBBSD_VERSION:=0.9.1};
 : ${PKG_LIBBSD_URL:=https://libbsd.freedesktop.org/releases/libbsd-${PKG_LIBBSD_VERSION}.tar.xz};
diff --git a/vars/libzip.vars b/vars/libzip.vars
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4e589fc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vars/libzip.vars
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+#
+# set -o errexit -o noglob are assumed.
+#
+
+pkg_libzip_configure() {
+        rm -f config.cache;
+        env     CFLAGS="-L${PKG_PREFIX}/lib --sysroot=${PKG_PREFIX}"            \
+                PREFIX="" LDFLAGS="-lbz2"                                       \
+	cmake   -DCMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_PROGRAM=NEVER                       \
+		-DCMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_INCLUDE=ONLY                        \
+		-DCMAKE_AR="${PREFIX}/bin/${PKG_AR}"                            \
+		-DCMAKE_C_COMPILER="${PREFIX}/bin/${PKG_CC}"                    \
+		-DCMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME="Midipix"                                   \
+		-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE="Debug"                                      \
+		-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=                                         \
+		-DCMAKE_RANLIB="${PREFIX}/bin/${PKG_RANLIB}"                    \
+		-DENABLE_GNUTLS=:BOOL=OFF                                       \
+		-DENABLE_MBEDTLS=:BOOL=OFF                                      \
+                -DZLIB_INCLUDE_DIR="${PKG_PREFIX}/include"                      \
+		-DZLIB_LIBRARY="${PKG_PREFIX}/lib/libz.lib.a"                   \
+		-DBZIP2_LIBRARIES="${PKG_PREFIX}/lib/libbz2.lib.a"              \
+		-DBZIP2_INCLUDE_DIR="${PKG_PREFIX}/include"                     \
+		-DOPENSSL_SSL_LIBRARY="${PKG_PREFIX}/lib/libssl.lib.a"          \
+                -DOPENSSL_CRYPTO_LIBRARY="${PKG_PREFIX}/lib/libcrypto.lib.a"    \
+		-DCMAKE_C_STANDARD_LIBRARIES="-lbz2 -lfts"                      \
+               "../libzip-${PKG_VERSION}";
+}