diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index eba3e9c..5941712 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ BINDIR  = $(PREFIX)/bin
 MANDIR  = $(PREFIX)/share/man
 
 CFLAGS  = -O2 -g -std=c99 -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -W -D_GNU_SOURCE -I/usr/local/include
+CFLAGS += -I/usr/include/libev
 LDFLAGS = -lssl -lcrypto -lev -L/usr/local/lib
 OBJS    = stud.o ringbuffer.o configuration.o
 
@@ -48,5 +49,18 @@ install: $(ALL)
 clean:
 	rm -f stud $(OBJS)
 
+GIT_VERSION=$(shell git describe)
+VERSION_MAJOR=$(firstword $(subst -, ,$(GIT_VERSION)))
+TMPDIR=$(shell pwd)/.rpmbuild
+
+rpm:
+	mkdir -p ${TMPDIR}/{BUILD,RPMS,SOURCES,SPECS,SRPMS}
+	git archive HEAD . --prefix=stud-$(VERSION_MAJOR)/ \
+		> ${TMPDIR}/SOURCES/stud-source.tar
+	sed -re s/GIT_VERSION/$(shell git describe)/ \
+		rhel/stud.spec > ${TMPDIR}/SPECS/stud.spec
+	rpmbuild --define "_topdir ${TMPDIR}" \
+		-bb ${TMPDIR}/SPECS/stud.spec $(if $(USE_SHARED_CACHE),--with cache,)
+	find ${TMPDIR}/RPMS/ -type f -name "*.rpm" -exec mv {} . \;
 
 .PHONY: all realall
diff --git a/rhel/stud.spec b/rhel/stud.spec
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f5a288a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rhel/stud.spec
@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+# The GIT_VERSION token below is automatically changed to the value of
+# `git describe` by the top-level Makefile's "rpm" build target
+%define git_version GIT_VERSION
+#
+# The git version is <tag>-#-sha1, where the <tag> is the most recent
+# annotated git tag, # is the number of commits since the tag, and the
+# sha1 is 'g' plus the first 7 chars of the most recent commit sha1-id
+# on the branch being compiled
+#
+# This will split the version information back into the <tag> (version)
+# and the #-sha1 (post_tag) parts
+#
+%define version %(echo %{git_version} | cut -d- -f1)
+%define post_tag %(echo %{git_version} | cut -s -d- -f2- | sed -e s/-/_/g)
+%if x%{post_tag} == "x"
+    %undefine post_tag
+%endif
+
+# Use --with cache to build the RPM with the USE_SHARED_CACHE feature
+%bcond_with cache
+
+Name:		stud
+Version:	%{version}
+Release:	%{?post_tag}%{!?post_tag:1}%{?dist}
+Summary:	The Scalable TLS Unwrapping Daemon
+
+Group:		Productivity/Networking/Web/Proxy
+License:	BSD
+URL:		https://github.com/bumptech/stud
+Source0:	stud-source.tar
+
+BuildRequires: libev-devel
+Requires:	libev openssl
+
+%description
+stud is a network proxy that terminates TLS/SSL connections and forwards the
+unencrypted traffic to some backend. It's designed to handle 10s of
+thousands of connections efficiently on multicore machines.
+
+%prep
+%setup -q
+%if %{with cache}
+mkdir ebtree
+curl http://1wt.eu/tools/ebtree/ebtree-6.0.8.tar.gz | tar xzf - -C "ebtree" --strip 1
+%endif
+
+%build
+make %{?_smp_mflags} %{?_with_cache:USE_SHARED_CACHE=1}
+
+
+%install
+rm -rf %{buildroot}
+make install DESTDIR=%{buildroot} PREFIX=/usr %{?_with_cache:USE_SHARED_CACHE=1}
+install -d %{buildroot}/etc/init.d
+install init.stud %{buildroot}/etc/init.d/stud
+
+%clean
+rm -rf %{buildroot}
+
+
+%files
+%defattr(-,root,root,-)
+/usr/bin/stud
+/etc/init.d/stud
+%doc
+/usr/share/man/man8
+
+
+%preun
+if [ "$1" = "0" ]; then
+    service stud stop 2>/dev/null
+    true
+fi
+
+%postun
+if [ "$1" = "0" ]; then
+    # remove rundir
+    rm -rf /var/run/stud >/dev/null 2>&1
+
+    # remove config dir
+    rm -rf /etc/stud >/dev/null 2>&1
+fi
+
+%post
+mkdir -p /var/run/stud
+mkdir -p /etc/stud
+
+
+%changelog
+