diff --git a/package/Config.in b/package/Config.in
index 371a1c33e1..5c7ab57101 100644
--- a/package/Config.in
+++ b/package/Config.in
@@ -2305,6 +2305,7 @@ menu "Text and terminal handling"
 	source "package/fstrcmp/Config.in"
 	source "package/icu/Config.in"
 	source "package/inih/Config.in"
+	source "package/iniparser/Config.in"
 	source "package/libcli/Config.in"
 	source "package/libecoli/Config.in"
 	source "package/libedit/Config.in"
diff --git a/package/iniparser/Config.in b/package/iniparser/Config.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..56764c04e6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/iniparser/Config.in
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+config BR2_PACKAGE_INIPARSER
+	bool "iniparser"
+	help
+	  iniparser is a simple C library offering ini file
+	  parsing services.
+
+	  https://gitlab.com/iniparser/iniparser
diff --git a/package/iniparser/iniparser.hash b/package/iniparser/iniparser.hash
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..27a5fa81aa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/iniparser/iniparser.hash
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# locally computed
+sha256  67575ed032a544d5359610e5f697af786371bbc3eb01311218ef8adfd3e5e329  iniparser-v4.2.6.tar.gz
+sha256  da809b67f3cc571433b7b97d4253ae1f9d8817770aa859aad202df6bde1d5fde  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/iniparser/iniparser.mk b/package/iniparser/iniparser.mk
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d5e4601d2b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/iniparser/iniparser.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+################################################################################
+#
+# iniparser
+#
+################################################################################
+
+INIPARSER_VERSION = 4.2.6
+INIPARSER_SITE = https://gitlab.com/iniparser/iniparser/-/archive/v$(INIPARSER_VERSION)
+INIPARSER_SOURCE = iniparser-v$(INIPARSER_VERSION).tar.gz
+INIPARSER_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
+INIPARSER_LICENSE = MIT
+INIPARSER_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE
+
+$(eval $(cmake-package))