libgnomekbd/meson.build | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 meson.build             |  1 +
 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git c/libgnomekbd/meson.build i/libgnomekbd/meson.build
index 4e8f3fa..c02e942 100644
--- c/libgnomekbd/meson.build
+++ i/libgnomekbd/meson.build
@@ -37,32 +37,32 @@ libgnomekbd_deps = [
   glib_dep,
   gobject_dep,
   gio_dep,
+  gmodule_export_dep,
   gdk_dep,
   gtk_dep,
   x11_dep,
   libxklavier_dep,
 ]
 
 libgnomekbd_sources = files(
   'gkbd-desktop-config.c',
   'gkbd-keyboard-config.c',
   'gkbd-util.c',
 )
 
 libgnomekbd_headers = files(
   'gkbd-desktop-config.h',
   'gkbd-keyboard-config.h',
   'gkbd-util.h',
 )
 
 libgnomekbd_lib = library(
   'gnomekbd',
   libgnomekbd_sources,
   config_h,
   dependencies: libgnomekbd_deps,
   include_directories: root_include,
-  version: meson.project_version(),
-  soversion: library_version,
+  version: library_version,
   install: true,
 )
 
@@ -115,8 +115,7 @@ libgnomekbdui_lib = library(
   gkbd_keyboard_drawing_marshal,
   dependencies: libgnomekbdui_deps,
   include_directories: root_include,
-  version: meson.project_version(),
-  soversion: library_version,
+  version: library_version,
   c_args: [
     '-DUIDIR="@0@"'.format(ui_dir),
     '-DDATADIR="@0@"'.format(pkg_data_dir),
@@ -149,6 +148,28 @@ install_headers(
   subdir: 'libgnomekbd',
 )
 
+pkgconfig = import('pkgconfig')
+
+pkgconfig.generate(
+  name: 'libgnomekbd',
+  description: 'GNOME keyboard shared library',
+  version: meson.project_version(),
+  requires: [
+    'gmodule-export-2.0',
+    'gdk-3.0',
+    'libxklavier',
+  ],
+  libraries: libgnomekbd_lib,
+)
+
+pkgconfig.generate(
+  name: 'libgnomekbdui',
+  description: 'GNOME keyboard shared library',
+  version: meson.project_version(),
+  requires: ['libgnomekbd'],
+  libraries: libgnomekbdui_lib,
+)
+
 gkbd_keyboard_display_cfg = configuration_data()
 gkbd_keyboard_display_cfg.set('VERSION', meson.project_version())
 
@@ -187,4 +208,5 @@ gnome.generate_gir(
   namespace: 'Gkbd',
   nsversion: '3.0',
   includes: ['GObject-2.0', 'Gtk-3.0', 'xlib-2.0', 'Xkl-1.0'],
-)
\ No newline at end of file
+  install: true,
+)
diff --git c/meson.build i/meson.build
index 4b4a2f9..44e8007 100644
--- c/meson.build
+++ i/meson.build
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ libxklavier_req = '>= 5.2'
 glib_dep = dependency('glib-2.0', version: glib_req)
 gobject_dep = dependency('gobject-2.0', version: glib_req)
 gio_dep = dependency('gio-2.0', version: glib_req)
+gmodule_export_dep = dependency('gmodule-export-2.0', version: glib_req)
 gdk_dep = dependency('gdk-3.0', version: gdk_req)
 gtk_dep = dependency('gtk+-3.0', version: gtk_req)
 x11_dep = dependency('x11')