diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index b94ad69..b850649 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 build-*
 Makefile.config.override
 src/charset/aliases.inc
-
+/target
+/doc
+/Cargo.lock
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8794889
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+[package]
+
+name = "parserutils-sys"
+version = "0.1.1"
+authors = ["J-M Bell"]
+
+build = "make -f makefile.cargo"
+
+[lib]
+
+name = "parserutils-sys"
+path = "lib.rs"
diff --git a/lib.rs b/lib.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..83f6eb8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib.rs
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+// Intentionally blank
diff --git a/makefile.cargo b/makefile.cargo
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2122974
--- /dev/null
+++ b/makefile.cargo
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+ifeq (darwin,$(findstring darwin,$(TARGET)))
+    OSTYPE=darwin
+endif
+ifeq (linux,$(findstring linux,$(TARGET)))
+    OSTYPE=linux
+endif
+ifeq (androideabi,$(findstring androideabi,$(TARGET)))
+    OSTYPE=android
+endif
+
+C_SRC= \
+	src/charset/aliases.c \
+	src/charset/codec.c \
+	src/charset/codecs/codec_8859.c \
+	src/charset/codecs/codec_ascii.c \
+	src/charset/codecs/codec_ext8.c \
+	src/charset/codecs/codec_utf16.c \
+	src/charset/codecs/codec_utf8.c \
+	src/charset/encodings/utf16.c \
+	src/charset/encodings/utf8.c \
+	src/input/filter.c \
+	src/input/inputstream.c \
+	src/utils/buffer.c \
+	src/utils/errors.c \
+	src/utils/stack.c \
+	src/utils/vector.c \
+	$(NULL)
+
+C_OBJS = $(patsubst %.c,$(OUT_DIR)/%.o,$(C_SRC))
+CFLAGS += -Isrc -Isrc/charset -Iinclude -fPIC
+ifeq ($(OSTYPE),android)
+    CFLAGS += -DWITHOUT_ICONV_FILTER
+endif
+
+.PHONY: all
+all: $(OUT_DIR)/libparserutils.a
+
+src/charset/aliases.inc: build/make-aliases.pl build/Aliases
+	perl build/make-aliases.pl
+
+src/charset/aliases.c: src/charset/aliases.inc
+
+$(OUT_DIR)/libparserutils.a: $(C_OBJS) src/charset/aliases.inc
+	cp -R include $(OUT_DIR)
+	$(AR) rcs $@ $^
+
+$(OUT_DIR)/%.o: %.c
+	mkdir -p `dirname $@` && $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ -c $<