diff --git a/.pkg-config/pegtl.pc.in b/.pkg-config/pegtl.pc.in
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..daf6c07f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.pkg-config/pegtl.pc.in
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+includedir="@CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX@/@PEGTL_INSTALL_INCLUDE_DIR@"
+
+Name: @PROJECT_NAME@
+Description: @CMAKE_PROJECT_DESCRIPTION@
+Version: @PROJECT_VERSION@
+URL: @CMAKE_PROJECT_HOMEPAGE_URL@
+Cflags: -I${includedir}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 53bc9333..1df6fa02 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ file(READ "${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/include/tao/pegtl/version.hpp" version_hpp_
 string(REGEX MATCH "#define TAO_PEGTL_VERSION \"([^\"]+)\"" _ ${version_hpp_data})
 set(PEGTL_VERSION "${CMAKE_MATCH_1}")
 
-project(pegtl VERSION ${PEGTL_VERSION} LANGUAGES CXX)
+project(pegtl VERSION ${PEGTL_VERSION} DESCRIPTION "The Parsing Expression Grammar Template Library" HOMEPAGE_URL https://github.com/taocpp/PEGTL LANGUAGES CXX)
 
 set(PEGTL_IS_MAIN_PROJECT OFF)
 if(CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR STREQUAL CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR)
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ mark_as_advanced(${PROJECT_NAME}_DIR)
 set(PEGTL_INSTALL_INCLUDE_DIR "include" CACHE STRING "The installation include directory")
 set(PEGTL_INSTALL_DOC_DIR "share/doc/tao/pegtl" CACHE STRING "The installation doc directory")
 set(PEGTL_INSTALL_CMAKE_DIR "share/pegtl/cmake" CACHE STRING "The installation cmake directory")
+set(PEGTL_INSTALL_PKGCONFIG_DIR "share/pkgconfig" CACHE STRING "The installation pkgconfig directory")
 
 # define a header-only library
 add_library(pegtl INTERFACE)
@@ -62,9 +63,12 @@ if(PEGTL_BUILD_EXAMPLES)
   add_subdirectory(src/example/pegtl)
 endif()
 
-# Make package findable
+# Make package findable by CMake
 configure_file(.cmake/pegtl-config.cmake.in pegtl-config.cmake @ONLY)
 
+# Make package findable by pkg-config
+configure_file(.pkg-config/pegtl.pc.in pegtl.pc @ONLY)
+
 # Ignore pointer width differences since this is a header-only library
 unset(CMAKE_SIZEOF_VOID_P)
 
@@ -82,6 +86,7 @@ install(EXPORT pegtl-targets
 )
 
 install(FILES ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/pegtl-config-version.cmake DESTINATION ${PEGTL_INSTALL_CMAKE_DIR})
+install(FILES ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/pegtl.pc DESTINATION ${PEGTL_INSTALL_PKGCONFIG_DIR})
 install(DIRECTORY include/ DESTINATION ${PEGTL_INSTALL_INCLUDE_DIR})
 install(FILES LICENSE_1_0.txt DESTINATION ${PEGTL_INSTALL_DOC_DIR})