diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 9234e61..f137e88 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@ stb_image.h
 stb_image_write.h
 qoibench
 qoiconv
+qoi.pc
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index fb4b4d8..4660180 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ LFLAGS_CONV ?= $(LDFLAGS)
 TARGET_BENCH ?= qoibench
 TARGET_CONV ?= qoiconv
 
+PREFIX ?= /usr/local
+BINDIR ?= $(PREFIX)/bin
+INCLUDEDIR ?= $(PREFIX)/include
+LIBDIR ?= $(PREFIX)/lib
+
 all: $(TARGET_BENCH) $(TARGET_CONV)
 
 bench: $(TARGET_BENCH)
@@ -17,6 +22,24 @@ conv: $(TARGET_CONV)
 $(TARGET_CONV):$(TARGET_CONV).c qoi.h
 	$(CC) $(CFLAGS_CONV) $(CFLAGS) $(TARGET_CONV).c -o $(TARGET_CONV) $(LFLAGS_CONV)
 
+qoi.pc: qoi.pc.in
+	sed < qoi.pc.in > qoi.pc \
+		-e 's|@PREFIX@|$(PREFIX)|g' \
+		-e 's|@INCLUDEDIR@|$(INCLUDEDIR:$(PREFIX)%=$${prefix}%)|g'
+
+.PHONY: install
+install: install-tools install-header
+
+.PHONY: install-tools
+install-tools: all
+	install -Dm 755 $(TARGET_CONV) $(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR)/$(TARGET_CONV)
+	install -Dm 755 $(TARGET_BENCH) $(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR)/$(TARGET_BENCH)
+
+.PHONY: install-header
+install-header: qoi.h qoi.pc
+	install -Dm 644 qoi.h $(DESTDIR)$(INCLUDEDIR)/qoi.h
+	install -Dm 644 qoi.pc $(DESTDIR)$(LIBDIR)/pkgconfig/qoi.pc
+
 .PHONY: clean
 clean:
 	$(RM) $(TARGET_BENCH) $(TARGET_CONV)
diff --git a/qoi.pc.in b/qoi.pc.in
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..dd83a36
--- /dev/null
+++ b/qoi.pc.in
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+prefix=@PREFIX@
+includedir=@INCLUDEDIR@
+
+Name: qoi
+Description: The "Quite OK Image Format" for fast, lossless image compression
+Version: 0
+URL: https://qoiformat.org/
+License: MIT
+Cflags: -I${includedir}