diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 3da9f38d56a..8fd417267d4 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -4205,3 +4205,4 @@ libtraceevent.so.1 libtraceevent-1.6.2_1
 libtracefs.so.1 libtracefs-1.4.2_1
 libtracecmd.so.1 libtracecmd-3.1.2_1
 libkshark.so.2 libkshark-2.1.1_1
+libcpp-hocon.so.0.3.0 cpp-hocon-0.3.0_5
diff --git a/srcpkgs/cpp-hocon-devel b/srcpkgs/cpp-hocon-devel
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..8d8bc1453e8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/cpp-hocon-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+cpp-hocon
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/cpp-hocon/template b/srcpkgs/cpp-hocon/template
index f61316adcc1..ce521b1395a 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/cpp-hocon/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/cpp-hocon/template
@@ -1,20 +1,23 @@
 # Template file for 'cpp-hocon'
 pkgname=cpp-hocon
 version=0.3.0
-revision=4
+revision=5
 build_style=cmake
+configure_args="-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON"
 hostmakedepends="pkg-config"
 makedepends="boost-devel leatherman-devel libcurl-devel"
 short_desc="C++ port of the Typesafe Config library"
 maintainer="Orphaned <orphan@voidlinux.org>"
 license="Apache-2.0"
 homepage="https://github.com/puppetlabs/cpp-hocon/"
-distfiles="https://github.com/puppetlabs/cpp-hocon/archive/${version}.tar.gz>${pkgname}-${version}.tar.gz"
+distfiles="https://github.com/puppetlabs/cpp-hocon/archive/${version}.tar.gz"
 checksum=dab02354046f05aca6275c746d7583ee5f71853aa5b1d93529564632e184c3dd
 
-post_install() {
-	# this package is a static library,
-	# needs to be rebuild when update boost,
-	# force an shlib-dependencies
-	vbin build/bin/libcpp-hocon_test
+cpp-hocon-devel_package() {
+	depends="${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision}"
+	short_desc+=" - development files"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/include
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.so"
+	}
 }