diff --git a/package/Config.in b/package/Config.in
index f3dc65e..eb667a6 100644
--- a/package/Config.in
+++ b/package/Config.in
@@ -660,6 +660,7 @@ source "package/openpgm/Config.in"
 source "package/ortp/Config.in"
 source "package/slirp/Config.in"
 source "package/snmppp/Config.in"
+source "package/thrift/Config.in"
 source "package/usbredir/Config.in"
 source "package/wvstreams/Config.in"
 source "package/zeromq/Config.in"
diff --git a/package/thrift/Config.in b/package/thrift/Config.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a7f3479
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/thrift/Config.in
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+config BR2_PACKAGE_THRIFT
+	bool "thrift"
+	depends on BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP
+	depends on BR2_USE_WCHAR
+	depends on BR2_LARGEFILE
+	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_BOOST
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBEVENT
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_OPENSSL
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_ZLIB
+	help
+	  The Apache Thrift software framework, for scalable cross-language
+	  services development, combines a software stack with a
+	  code generation engine to build services that work
+	  efficiently and seamlessly between C++, Java, Python, PHP, Ruby,
+	  Erlang, Perl, Haskell, C#, Cocoa, JavaScript, Node.js, Smalltalk,
+	  OCaml and Delphi and other languages.
+
+	  http://thrift.apache.org/
+
+comment "thrift needs a toolchain w/ C++, largefile, wchar, threads"
+	depends on !BR2_LARGEFILE || !BR2_USE_WCHAR || \
+		!BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS || !BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP
diff --git a/package/thrift/thrift-01-libevent-cross.patch b/package/thrift/thrift-01-libevent-cross.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f07caa7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/thrift/thrift-01-libevent-cross.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+Make it cross-compile happy the hard way, there's no clean way.
+
+Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
+
+diff -Nura thrift-0.9.1.orig/aclocal/ax_lib_event.m4 thrift-0.9.1/aclocal/ax_lib_event.m4
+--- thrift-0.9.1.orig/aclocal/ax_lib_event.m4	2013-08-15 11:04:29.000000000 -0300
++++ thrift-0.9.1/aclocal/ax_lib_event.m4	2013-10-07 20:40:44.076435613 -0300
+@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
+           AC_LANG_PUSH([C])
+           dnl This can be changed to AC_LINK_IFELSE if you are cross-compiling,
+           dnl but then the version cannot be checked.
+-          AC_RUN_IFELSE([AC_LANG_PROGRAM([[
++          AC_LINK_IFELSE([AC_LANG_PROGRAM([[
+           #include <sys/types.h>
+           #include <event.h>
+           ]], [[
diff --git a/package/thrift/thrift-02-autoreconf.patch b/package/thrift/thrift-02-autoreconf.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d56212a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/thrift/thrift-02-autoreconf.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+Fillers to make autoreconf (automake) happy.
+
+Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
+
+diff -Nura thrift-0.9.1.orig/AUTHORS thrift-0.9.1/AUTHORS
+--- thrift-0.9.1.orig/AUTHORS	1969-12-31 21:00:00.000000000 -0300
++++ thrift-0.9.1/AUTHORS	2013-10-07 20:45:15.745315148 -0300
+@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
++
++
+diff -Nura thrift-0.9.1.orig/ChangeLog thrift-0.9.1/ChangeLog
+--- thrift-0.9.1.orig/ChangeLog	1969-12-31 21:00:00.000000000 -0300
++++ thrift-0.9.1/ChangeLog	2013-10-07 20:45:23.078554836 -0300
+@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
++
++
+diff -Nura thrift-0.9.1.orig/NEWS thrift-0.9.1/NEWS
+--- thrift-0.9.1.orig/NEWS	1969-12-31 21:00:00.000000000 -0300
++++ thrift-0.9.1/NEWS	2013-10-07 20:45:20.351465699 -0300
+@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
++
++
diff --git a/package/thrift/thrift-03-zlib-cross.patch b/package/thrift/thrift-03-zlib-cross.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3af39c4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/thrift/thrift-03-zlib-cross.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+Make zlib version detection cross-compile happy.
+
+Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
+
+diff -Nura thrift-0.9.1.orig/aclocal/ax_lib_zlib.m4 thrift-0.9.1/aclocal/ax_lib_zlib.m4
+--- thrift-0.9.1.orig/aclocal/ax_lib_zlib.m4	2013-08-15 11:04:29.000000000 -0300
++++ thrift-0.9.1/aclocal/ax_lib_zlib.m4	2013-10-07 20:47:44.523177973 -0300
+@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
+           #   (defined in the library).
+           AC_LANG_PUSH([C])
+           dnl This can be changed to AC_LINK_IFELSE if you are cross-compiling.
+-          AC_RUN_IFELSE([AC_LANG_PROGRAM([[
++          AC_LINK_IFELSE([AC_LANG_PROGRAM([[
+           #include <zlib.h>
+           #if ZLIB_VERNUM >= 0x$WANT_ZLIB_VERSION
+           #else
diff --git a/package/thrift/thrift.mk b/package/thrift/thrift.mk
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..850d3f4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/thrift/thrift.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+################################################################################
+#
+# thrift
+#
+################################################################################
+
+THRIFT_VERSION = 0.9.1
+THRIFT_SITE = http://www.us.apache.org/dist/thrift/$(THRIFT_VERSION)
+THRIFT_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf host-thrift boost libevent openssl zlib
+HOST_THRIFT_DEPENDENCIES = host-boost host-libevent host-openssl host-pkgconf \
+	host-zlib
+THRIFT_CONF_OPT = --with-sysroot=$(STAGING_DIR) --with-tests=no \
+	--with-boost=$(STAGING_DIR)
+HOST_THRIFT_CONF_OPT = --with-sysroot=$(HOST_DIR) --with-tests=no
+THRIFT_AUTORECONF = YES
+THRIFT_LICENSE = Apache 2.0
+THRIFT_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE
+
+ifeq ($(BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB),y)
+# openssl uses zlib, so we need to explicitly link with it when static
+THRIFT_CONF_ENV += LIBS=-lz
+endif
+
+# Language selection
+# The generator (host tool) works with all of them regardless
+# This is just for the libraries / bindings
+THRIFT_LANG_CONF_OPT += --without-csharp --without-java --without-erlang \
+	--without-python --without-perl --without-php --without-php_extension \
+	--without-ruby --without-haskell --without-go --without-d
+HOST_THRIFT_CONF_OPT += $(THRIFT_LANG_CONF_OPT) --without-c_glib
+THRIFT_CONF_OPT += $(THRIFT_LANG_CONF_OPT)
+
+# C bindings
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_LIBGLIB2),y)
+THRIFT_DEPENDENCIES += libglib2
+else
+THRIFT_CONF_OPT += --without-c_glib
+endif
+
+# De-hardcode THRIFT for cross compiling
+define THRIFT_TOOL_NO_HARDCODE
+	for f in `find $(@D) -name Makefile.am -type f`; do \
+		$(SED) "/^THRIFT =/d" $$f; \
+	done
+	$(SED) "s:top_builddir)/compiler/cpp/thrift:THRIFT):" $(@D)/tutorial/Makefile.am
+endef
+
+THRIFT_POST_PATCH_HOOKS += THRIFT_TOOL_NO_HARDCODE
+
+define THRIFT_BUILD_CMDS
+	$(TARGET_MAKE_ENV) $(MAKE) THRIFT=$(HOST_DIR)/usr/bin/thrift -C $(@D)
+endef
+
+# Install runtime only
+define THRIFT_INSTALL_TARGET_CMDS
+	$(TARGET_MAKE_ENV) $(MAKE) -C $(@D)/lib DESTDIR=$(TARGET_DIR) install
+endef
+
+$(eval $(autotools-package))
+$(eval $(host-autotools-package))
