diff --git a/ports/readline/CMakeLists.txt b/ports/readline/CMakeLists.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7a2e403da
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ports/readline/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.0)
+project(readline C)
+
+if(CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE STREQUAL Debug)
+    set(LIB_SUFFIX d)
+endif()
+
+add_definitions(-DREADLINE_LIBRARY)
+add_definitions(-DBUILD_READLINE_DLL)
+add_definitions(-DHAVE_CONFIG_H)
+add_definitions(-D_CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS)
+
+if(CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE STREQUAL Debug)
+    add_definitions(-D_DEBUG)
+endif()
+
+add_definitions(-D_WINDOWS)
+add_definitions(-D_USRDLL)
+add_definitions(-DREADLINE_EXPORTS)
+
+include_directories(
+    ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR} # thats where the config.h is located
+)
+
+add_library(readline
+    readline.c
+    funmap.c
+    keymaps.c
+	vi_mode.c
+    parens.c
+    rltty.c
+    complete.c
+    bind.c
+    isearch.c
+    display.c
+    signals.c
+    util.c
+    kill.c
+	undo.c
+    macro.c
+    input.c
+	callback.c
+    terminal.c
+    xmalloc.c
+	history.c
+    histsearch.c
+    histexpand.c
+	histfile.c
+    nls.c
+    search.c
+	shell.c
+    savestring.c
+    tilde.c
+	text.c
+    misc.c
+    compat.c
+	mbutil.c
+    support/wcwidth.c)
+
+install(TARGETS readline
+    RUNTIME DESTINATION bin
+    LIBRARY DESTINATION lib
+    ARCHIVE DESTINATION lib)
diff --git a/ports/readline/CONTROL b/ports/readline/CONTROL
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..669e1da12
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ports/readline/CONTROL
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Source: readline
+Version: 5.0-1
+Description: GNU readline
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/ports/readline/config.h b/ports/readline/config.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..de0a352fe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ports/readline/config.h
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+#define RETSIGTYPE void
+#define VOID_SIGHANDLER 1
+#define PROTOTYPES 1
+#define HAVE_ISASCII 1
+#define HAVE_ISXDIGIT 1
+#define HAVE_MBRLEN 1
+#define HAVE_MBRTOWC 1
+#define HAVE_MBRTOWC 1
+#define HAVE_MBSRTOWCS 1
+#define HAVE_MEMMOVE 1
+#define HAVE_PUTENV 1
+#define HAVE_SETENV 1
+#define HAVE_SETLOCALE 1
+#define HAVE_STRCOLL 1
+#define STRCOLL_BROKEN 1
+#define HAVE_STRPBRK 1
+#define HAVE_TCGETATTR 1
+#define HAVE_VSNPRINTF 1
+#define HAVE_WCTOMB 1
+#define HAVE_WCWIDTH 1
+#define STDC_HEADERS 1
+#define HAVE_LANGINFO_H 1
+#define HAVE_LIMITS_H 1
+#define HAVE_LOCALE_H 1
+#define HAVE_MEMORY_H 1
+#define HAVE_STDARG_H 1
+#define HAVE_STDLIB_H 1
+#define HAVE_STRING_H 1
+#define HAVE_TERMIOS_H 1
+#define HAVE_WCHAR_H 1
+#define HAVE_WCTYPE_H 1
+#define HAVE_MBSTATE_T 1
+#define HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET 1
+#define VOID_SIGHANDLER 1
+#define STRUCT_WINSIZE_IN_SYS_IOCTL 1
+#define HAVE_GETPW_DECLS 1
+#define MUST_REINSTALL_SIGHANDLERS 1
+#define CTYPE_NON_ASCII 1
+
+/* Ultrix botches type-ahead when switching from canonical to
+   non-canonical mode, at least through version 4.3 */
+#if !defined (HAVE_TERMIOS_H) || !defined (HAVE_TCGETATTR) || defined (ultrix)
+#  define TERMIOS_MISSING
+#endif
+
+#if defined (STRCOLL_BROKEN)
+#  define HAVE_STRCOLL 1
+#endif
+
+#if defined (__STDC__) && defined (HAVE_STDARG_H)
+#  define PREFER_STDARG
+#  define USE_VARARGS
+#else
+#  if defined (HAVE_VARARGS_H)
+#    define PREFER_VARARGS
+#    define USE_VARARGS
+#  endif
+#endif
diff --git a/ports/readline/portfile.cmake b/ports/readline/portfile.cmake
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..24114c059
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ports/readline/portfile.cmake
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+# Common Ambient Variables:
+#   CURRENT_BUILDTREES_DIR    = ${VCPKG_ROOT_DIR}\buildtrees\${PORT}
+#   CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR      = ${VCPKG_ROOT_DIR}\packages\${PORT}_${TARGET_TRIPLET}
+#   CURRENT_PORT_DIR          = ${VCPKG_ROOT_DIR}\ports\${PORT}
+#   PORT                      = current port name (zlib, etc)
+#   TARGET_TRIPLET            = current triplet (x86-windows, x64-windows-static, etc)
+#   VCPKG_CRT_LINKAGE         = C runtime linkage type (static, dynamic)
+#   VCPKG_LIBRARY_LINKAGE     = target library linkage type (static, dynamic)
+#   VCPKG_ROOT_DIR            = <C:\path\to\current\vcpkg>
+#   VCPKG_TARGET_ARCHITECTURE = target architecture (x64, x86, arm)
+#
+
+include(vcpkg_common_functions)
+set(SOURCE_PATH ${CURRENT_BUILDTREES_DIR}/src/readline-vs/src/readline/5.0/readline-5.0-src)
+
+vcpkg_download_distfile(ARCHIVE
+    URLS "https://github.com/lltcggie/readline/archive/vs.zip"
+    FILENAME "readline-5.0-1-src.zip"
+    SHA512 c67908b9c868aa611a48dfc4db43718169cbdc6784107beb22cd1a4d28f0c4aa88f30cae0839a530c481c74173e1d7a2bf0000596099ed9b940c05c9dc7d5ebc
+)
+
+vcpkg_extract_source_archive(${ARCHIVE})
+
+file(COPY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/CMakeLists.txt DESTINATION ${SOURCE_PATH})
+file(COPY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/config.h DESTINATION ${SOURCE_PATH})
+
+if(VCPKG_CRT_LINKAGE STREQUAL static)
+    set(LIBVPX_CRT_LINKAGE --enable-static-msvcrt)
+    set(LIBVPX_CRT_SUFFIX mt)
+else()
+    set(LIBVPX_CRT_SUFFIX md)
+endif()
+
+vcpkg_configure_cmake(
+    SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA)
+
+vcpkg_install_cmake()
+
+# Copy headers
+file (MAKE_DIRECTORY
+    ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/include/readline)
+    
+file(GLOB headers "${SOURCE_PATH}/*.h")
+file(COPY ${headers} DESTINATION ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/include/readline)
+
+# Handle copyright
+file(INSTALL ${SOURCE_PATH}/COPYING DESTINATION ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/share/readline RENAME copyright)