diff --git a/configure.sh b/configure.sh
index 4cf5879..fb43e47 100755
--- a/configure.sh
+++ b/configure.sh
@@ -34,10 +34,13 @@ locals() {
     esac
 }
 
+VERSION=`cat VERSION`
 TARGET=markdown
 . ./configure.inc
 
 AC_INIT $TARGET
+AC_SUB 'PACKAGE_NAME' lib$TARGET
+AC_SUB 'PACKAGE_VERSION' $VERSION
 
 for banned_with in dl fenced-code id-anchor github-tags urlencoded-anchor; do
     banned_with_variable_ref=\$WITH_`echo "$banned_with" | $AC_UPPERCASE | tr - _`
@@ -159,4 +162,4 @@ fi
 
 [ "$WITH_PANDOC_HEADER" ] && AC_DEFINE 'PANDOC_HEADER' '1'
 
-AC_OUTPUT Makefile version.c mkdio.h
+AC_OUTPUT Makefile version.c mkdio.h libmarkdown.pc
diff --git a/libmarkdown.pc.in b/libmarkdown.pc.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1d1082e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libmarkdown.pc.in
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+prefix=@prefix@
+exec_prefix=@prefix@
+libdir=@libdir@
+includedir=@prefix@/include
+
+Name: @PACKAGE_NAME@
+Version: @PACKAGE_VERSION@
+Description: C implementation of John Gruber's Markdown markup language
+
+Libs: -L${libdir} -lmarkdown @LIBS@
+Cflags: -I${includedir}