diff --git a/packages/libgmime/Makefile.in.patch b/packages/libgmime/Makefile.in.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b764620b72
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/libgmime/Makefile.in.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+diff -u -r ../gmime-2.6.23/Makefile.in ./Makefile.in
+--- ../gmime-2.6.23/Makefile.in	2017-01-21 23:27:33.000000000 +0100
++++ ./Makefile.in	2017-04-06 18:58:31.616613454 +0200
+@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@
+ ETAGS = etags
+ CTAGS = ctags
+ CSCOPE = cscope
+-DIST_SUBDIRS = m4 build util gmime mono tests docs examples tools .
++DIST_SUBDIRS = m4 build util gmime mono docs examples tools .
+ am__DIST_COMMON = $(srcdir)/Makefile.in $(srcdir)/config.h.in \
+ 	$(srcdir)/gmime.pc.in $(srcdir)/gmime.spec.in AUTHORS COPYING \
+ 	ChangeLog NEWS README TODO compile config.guess config.rpath \
+@@ -433,7 +433,7 @@
+ top_build_prefix = @top_build_prefix@
+ top_builddir = @top_builddir@
+ top_srcdir = @top_srcdir@
+-SUBDIRS = m4 build util gmime $(am__append_1) tests docs \
++SUBDIRS = m4 build util gmime $(am__append_1) docs \
+ 	$(am__append_2) tools .
+ 
+ # build documentation when doing distcheck
diff --git a/packages/libgmime/build.sh b/packages/libgmime/build.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7c493ee405
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/libgmime/build.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=http://spruce.sourceforge.net/gmime/
+TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="MIME message parser and creator"
+local _MAJOR_VERSION=2.6
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=${_MAJOR_VERSION}.23
+TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://download.gnome.org/sources/gmime/$_MAJOR_VERSION/gmime-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.xz
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=7149686a71ca42a1390869b6074815106b061aaeaaa8f2ef8c12c191d9a79f6a
+TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="glib"
+TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="
+ac_cv_have_iconv_detect_h=yes
+--disable-glibtest
+"
diff --git a/packages/libgmime/iconv-detect.h.patch b/packages/libgmime/iconv-detect.h.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b5e4e671d5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/libgmime/iconv-detect.h.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+diff -N -a -u -r ../gmime-2.6.23/iconv-detect.h ./iconv-detect.h
+--- ../gmime-2.6.23/iconv-detect.h	1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
++++ ./iconv-detect.h	2017-04-06 18:24:52.423896227 +0200
+@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
++/* This is an auto-generated header, DO NOT EDIT! */
++
++#define ICONV_ISO_INT_FORMAT "iso-%u-%u"
++#define ICONV_ISO_STR_FORMAT "iso-%u-%s"
++#define ICONV_10646 "UCS-4BE"