diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
index 858df9ea..9f446c51 100644
--- a/index.html
+++ b/index.html
@@ -1887,6 +1887,10 @@ local-pkg-list: $(LOCAL_PKG_LIST)</pre>
         <td class="package">nettle</td>
         <td class="website"><a href="http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/">nettle</a></td>
     </tr>
+    <tr>
+        <td class="package">nlopt</td>
+        <td class="website"><a href="http://ab-initio.mit.edu/wiki/index.php/NLopt">NLopt</a></td>
+    </tr>
     <tr>
         <td class="package">nsis</td>
         <td class="website"><a href="http://nsis.sourceforge.net/">NSIS</a></td>
diff --git a/src/nlopt.mk b/src/nlopt.mk
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6332b80e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/nlopt.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+# This file is part of MXE.
+# See index.html for further information.
+
+PKG             := nlopt
+$(PKG)_IGNORE   :=
+$(PKG)_VERSION  := 2.4.1
+$(PKG)_CHECKSUM := 181181a3f7dd052e0740771994eb107bd59886ad
+$(PKG)_SUBDIR   := $(PKG)-$($(PKG)_VERSION)
+$(PKG)_FILE     := $(PKG)-$($(PKG)_VERSION).tar.gz
+$(PKG)_URL      := http://ab-initio.mit.edu/$(PKG)/$($(PKG)_FILE)
+$(PKG)_DEPS     := gcc
+
+define $(PKG)_UPDATE
+    $(WGET) -q -O- 'http://ab-initio.mit.edu/wiki/index.php/NLopt' | \
+    $(SED) -n 's,.*<a href=".*nlopt-\([0-9.]\+\).tar.gz".*,\1,p' | \
+    $(SORT) -V | \
+    tail -1
+endef
+
+define $(PKG)_BUILD
+    cd '$(1)' && ./configure \
+        $(MXE_CONFIGURE_OPTS) \
+        --with-cxx
+    $(MAKE) -C '$(1)' -j '$(JOBS)'
+    $(MAKE) -C '$(1)' -j 1 install
+endef