diff --git a/include-workaround-meson/librdkafka/meson.build b/include-workaround-meson/librdkafka/meson.build
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/include-workaround-meson/librdkafka/meson.build
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+# https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/2546
+install_headers(hdr, subdir: 'librdkafka')
+foreach h: hdr
+	configure_file(
+		copy: true,
+		input: h,
+		output: '@PLAINNAME@',
+	)
+endforeach
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -0,0 +1,196 @@
+project('rdkafka', 'c', 'cpp', version: '1.5.0')
+cc = meson.get_compiler('c')
+cpp = meson.get_compiler('cpp')
+pkgconfig = import('pkgconfig')
+
+hdr = files(
+	'src/rdkafka.h',
+	'src-cpp/rdkafkacpp.h',
+)
+subdir('include-workaround-meson/librdkafka')
+srcc = [
+    'src/crc32c.c',
+    'src/rdaddr.c',
+    'src/rdavl.c',
+    'src/rdbuf.c',
+    'src/rdcrc32.c',
+    'src/rdfnv1a.c',
+    'src/rdkafka.c',
+    'src/rdkafka_assignor.c',
+    'src/rdkafka_broker.c',
+    'src/rdkafka_buf.c',
+    'src/rdkafka_cgrp.c',
+    'src/rdkafka_conf.c',
+    'src/rdkafka_event.c',
+    'src/rdkafka_feature.c',
+    'src/rdkafka_lz4.c',
+    'src/rdkafka_metadata.c',
+    'src/rdkafka_metadata_cache.c',
+    'src/rdkafka_msg.c',
+    'src/rdkafka_msgset_reader.c',
+    'src/rdkafka_msgset_writer.c',
+    'src/rdkafka_offset.c',
+    'src/rdkafka_op.c',
+    'src/rdkafka_partition.c',
+    'src/rdkafka_pattern.c',
+    'src/rdkafka_queue.c',
+    'src/rdkafka_range_assignor.c',
+    'src/rdkafka_request.c',
+    'src/rdkafka_roundrobin_assignor.c',
+    'src/rdkafka_sasl.c',
+    'src/rdkafka_sasl_plain.c',
+    'src/rdkafka_subscription.c',
+    'src/rdkafka_timer.c',
+    'src/rdkafka_topic.c',
+    'src/rdkafka_transport.c',
+    'src/rdkafka_interceptor.c',
+    'src/rdkafka_header.c',
+    'src/rdkafka_admin.c',
+    'src/rdkafka_aux.c',
+    'src/rdkafka_background.c',
+    'src/rdkafka_idempotence.c',
+    'src/rdkafka_txnmgr.c',
+    'src/rdkafka_cert.c',
+    'src/rdkafka_coord.c',
+    'src/rdkafka_mock.c',
+    'src/rdkafka_mock_handlers.c',
+    'src/rdkafka_mock_cgrp.c',
+    'src/rdkafka_error.c',
+    'src/rdlist.c',
+    'src/rdlog.c',
+    'src/rdmurmur2.c',
+    'src/rdports.c',
+    'src/rdrand.c',
+    'src/rdregex.c',
+    'src/rdstring.c',
+    'src/rdunittest.c',
+    'src/rdvarint.c',
+    'src/snappy.c',
+    'src/tinycthread.c',
+    'src/tinycthread_extra.c',
+    'src/rdxxhash.c',
+]
+srccpp = [
+	'src-cpp/ConfImpl.cpp',
+	'src-cpp/ConsumerImpl.cpp',
+	'src-cpp/HeadersImpl.cpp',
+	'src-cpp/KafkaConsumerImpl.cpp',
+	'src-cpp/MessageImpl.cpp',
+	'src-cpp/MetadataImpl.cpp',
+	'src-cpp/ProducerImpl.cpp',
+	'src-cpp/QueueImpl.cpp',
+	'src-cpp/RdKafka.cpp',
+	'src-cpp/TopicImpl.cpp',
+	'src-cpp/TopicPartitionImpl.cpp',
+	'src-cpp/HandleImpl.cpp',
+	'src-cpp/rdkafkacpp.h',
+	'src-cpp/rdkafkacpp_int.h',
+]
+
+regex = cc.compiles('''
+	#include <stddef.h>
+	#include <regex.h>
+	void foo (void) {
+		regcomp(NULL, NULL, 0);
+		regexec(NULL, NULL, 0, NULL, 0);
+		regerror(0, NULL, NULL, 0);
+		regfree(NULL);
+	}
+''', name: 'have regex')
+
+zlib = dependency('zlib', required: get_option('WITH_ZLIB'), static: get_option('default_library') == 'static', fallback: ['zlib', 'zlib_dep'])
+zstd = dependency('libzstd', required: get_option('WITH_ZSTD'), static: get_option('default_library') == 'static', fallback: ['zstd', 'zstd_dep'])
+lz4 = dependency('liblz4', required: get_option('ENABLE_LZ4_EXT'), static: get_option('default_library') == 'static', fallback: ['lz4', 'lz4_dep'])
+sasl = dependency('libsasl2', required: get_option('WITH_SASL'), static: get_option('default_library') == 'static') # TODO: make SASL usable without libsasl2 on windows 
+ssl = dependency('openssl', required: get_option('WITH_SSL'), static: get_option('default_library') == 'static')
+dl = cc.find_library('dl', required : get_option('WITH_LIBDL'))
+threads = dependency('threads')
+
+conf = configuration_data()
+
+conf.set10('WITHOUT_OPTIMIZATION', get_option('WITHOUT_OPTIMIZATION'))
+conf.set10('ENABLE_DEVEL', get_option('ENABLE_DEVEL'))
+conf.set10('ENABLE_REFCNT_DEBUG', get_option('ENABLE_REFCNT_DEBUG'))
+conf.set10('ENABLE_SHAREDPTR_DEBUG', get_option('ENABLE_SHAREDPTR_DEBUG'))
+conf.set10('WITH_PLUGINS', dl.found())
+conf.set10('WITH_LIBDL', dl.found())
+conf.set10('WITH_ZLIB', zlib.found())
+conf.set10('WITH_ZSTD', zstd.found())
+conf.set10('WITH_SSL', ssl.found())
+conf.set10('WITH_SASL', sasl.found())
+conf.set10('ENABLE_LZ4_EXT', lz4.found())
+conf.set10('HAVE_REGEX', regex)
+conf.set('CMAKE_SHARED_LIBRARY_SUFFIX', 'so')
+
+built_with = 'meson ' + cc.get_id() + ' ' + cpp.get_id()
+if ssl.found()
+	built_with += ' SSL'
+	srcc += 'src/rdkafka_ssl.c'
+endif
+if dl.found()
+	srcc += ['src/rddl.c', 'src/rdkafka_plugin.c']
+	built_with += ' LIBDL PLUGINS'
+endif
+if sasl.found()
+  if host_machine.system() == 'windows'
+	srcc += 'src/rdkafka_sasl_win32.c'
+  else
+	srcc += 'src/rdkafka_sasl_cyrus.c'
+	conf.set10('WITH_SASL_CYRUS', true)
+	built_with += ' SASL_CYRUS'
+  endif
+  if ssl.found()
+	srcc += [ 'src/rdkafka_sasl_scram.c', 'src/rdkafka_sasl_oauthbearer.c']
+	conf.set10('WITH_SASL_SCRAM', true)
+	conf.set10('WITH_SASL_OAUTHBEARER', true)
+	built_with += ' SASL_SCRAM SASL_OAUTHBEARER'
+  endif
+endif
+
+if zlib.found()
+	srcc += 'src/rdgz.c'
+	built_with += ' ZLIB'
+endif
+if zstd.found()
+	srcc += 'src/rdkafka_zstd.c'
+	built_with += ' ZSTD'
+endif
+if lz4.found()
+	srcc += ['src/lz4.c', 'src/lz4frame.c', 'src/lz4hc.c']
+	built_with += ' LZ4'
+endif
+if not regex
+	srcc += 'src/regexp.c'
+endif
+
+conf.set('BUILT_WITH', built_with)
+configure_file(configuration: conf,
+	input: 'packaging/cmake/config.h.in',
+	output: 'config.h',
+	format: 'cmake',
+)
+
+rdkafka = library('rdkafka', srcc, install: true, dependencies: [threads, dl, zlib, zstd, sasl, ssl, lz4])
+rdkafka_dep = declare_dependency(
+	link_with: rdkafka,
+	include_directories: include_directories('include-workaround-meson'),
+)
+pkgconfig.generate(rdkafka,
+	subdirs: 'rdkafka',
+	version : meson.project_version(),
+	name: 'rdkafka',
+	filebase: 'rdkafka',
+	description: 'The Apache Kafka C/C++ library'
+)
+rdkafkapp = library('rdkafka++', srccpp, install: true, dependencies: rdkafka_dep)
+rdkafkapp_dep = declare_dependency(
+	link_with: rdkafkapp,
+	include_directories: include_directories('include-workaround-meson'),
+)
+pkgconfig.generate(rdkafkapp,
+	subdirs: 'rdkafka',
+	version: meson.project_version(),
+	name: 'rdkafka++',
+	filebase: 'rdkafka',
+	description: 'The Apache Kafka C/C++ library'
+)
diff --git a/meson_options.txt b/meson_options.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c1e4a55
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meson_options.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+option('WITHOUT_OPTIMIZATION', type : 'boolean', value : false, description : 'Disable optimization')
+option('ENABLE_DEVEL', type : 'boolean', value : false, description : 'Enable development asserts, checks, etc')
+option('ENABLE_REFCNT_DEBUG', type : 'boolean', value : false, description : 'Enable refcnt debugging')
+option('ENABLE_SHAREDPTR_DEBUG', type : 'boolean', value : false, description : 'Enable sharedptr debugging')
+option('WITH_LIBDL', type : 'feature', value : 'enabled', description : 'With libdl')
+option('WITH_ZLIB', type : 'feature', value : 'enabled', description : 'With ZLIB')
+option('WITH_ZSTD', type : 'feature', value : 'enabled', description : 'With ZSTD')
+option('WITH_SSL', type : 'feature', value : 'enabled', description : 'With SSL')
+option('WITH_SASL', type : 'feature', value : 'enabled', description : 'With SASL')
+option('ENABLE_LZ4_EXT', type : 'feature', value : 'enabled', description : 'Enable external LZ4 library support')
diff --git a/upstream.wrap b/upstream.wrap
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..14e2dd6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/upstream.wrap
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+[wrap-file]
+directory = librdkafka-1.5.0
+
+source_url = https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka/archive/v1.5.0.tar.gz
+source_filename = rdkafka-1.5.0.tgz
+source_hash = f7fee59fdbf1286ec23ef0b35b2dfb41031c8727c90ced6435b8cf576f23a656
+