diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index d2551165..184086c0 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@
 Cargo.lock
 target
 **/*.rs.bk
+lol-html.pc
diff --git a/scripts/generate_pkgconfig.sh b/scripts/generate_pkgconfig.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..ca59e598
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/generate_pkgconfig.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+set -eu
+
+cat << EOF > lol-html.pc
+prefix=${PREFIX:-/usr}
+exec_prefix=\${prefix}
+libdir=\${exec_prefix}/lib
+includedir=\${prefix}/include
+
+Name: lol-html
+Description: Low output latency streaming HTML parser/rewriter
+Version: $(cargo metadata --format-version=1 --no-deps --manifest-path=c-api/Cargo.toml | jq -r '.packages[0].version')
+
+Requires:
+Libs: -L\${libdir} -llolhtml
+Cflags: -I\${includedir}
+EOF