diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 73d560b..082ea5a 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ MAINTAINERCLEANFILES = aclocal.m4 config.guess config.h.in \
 		       config.sub configure depcomp install-sh \
 		       ltmain.sh Makefile.in missing imlib2_docs.tar.gz
 
+bin_SCRIPTS = imlib2-config
+
 EXTRA_DIST = AUTHORS COPYING COPYING-PLAIN gendoc \
              Doxyfile \
 	     README.in README \
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 045a7f6..e7b7a29 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -527,9 +527,12 @@ data/Makefile
 data/fonts/Makefile
 data/images/Makefile
 doc/Makefile
+imlib2-config
 README
 imlib2.spec
 debian/changelog
+],[
+chmod +x imlib2-config
 ])
 
 #####################################################################
diff --git a/imlib2-config.in b/imlib2-config.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cf814c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/imlib2-config.in
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+prefix=@prefix@
+exec_prefix=@exec_prefix@
+exec_prefix_set=no
+
+usage="\
+Usage: imlib2-config [--prefix[=DIR]] [--exec-prefix[=DIR]] [--version] [--libs] [--cflags]"
+
+if test $# -eq 0; then
+      echo "${usage}" 1>&2
+      exit 1
+fi
+
+while test $# -gt 0; do
+  case "$1" in
+  -*=*) optarg=`echo "$1" | sed 's/[-_a-zA-Z0-9]*=//'` ;;
+  *) optarg= ;;
+  esac
+
+  case $1 in
+    --prefix=*)
+      prefix=$optarg
+      if test $exec_prefix_set = no ; then
+        exec_prefix=$optarg
+      fi
+      ;;
+    --prefix)
+      echo $prefix
+      ;;
+    --exec-prefix=*)
+      exec_prefix=$optarg
+      exec_prefix_set=yes
+      ;;
+    --exec-prefix)
+      echo $exec_prefix
+      ;;
+    --version)
+      echo @VERSION@
+      ;;
+    --cflags)
+      if test @prefix@/include != /usr/include ; then
+        includes="-I@prefix@/include"
+      fi
+      echo $includes
+      ;;
+    --libs)
+      libdirs=-L@libdir@
+      echo $libdirs -lImlib2 @my_libs@
+      ;;
+    *)
+      echo "${usage}" 1>&2
+      exit 1
+      ;;
+  esac
+  shift
+done
+
+exit 0
diff --git a/imlib2.spec.in b/imlib2.spec.in
index 5866264..f43b216 100644
--- a/imlib2.spec.in
+++ b/imlib2.spec.in
@@ -158,6 +158,7 @@ test "x$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" != "x/" && rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %{_libdir}/*.a
 %{_libdir}/imlib2/*/*.a
 %{_libdir}/imlib2/*/*.la
+%{_bindir}/imlib2-config
 %{_libdir}/pkgconfig/*
 %{_includedir}/*
 %{_datadir}/%{name}