diff --git a/mingw-w64-szip/PKGBUILD b/mingw-w64-szip/PKGBUILD
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index 0000000000..79259f8b41
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mingw-w64-szip/PKGBUILD
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+# Contributor: Xin Sun <sun.simpson@gmail.com>
+
+_realname=szip
+_mingw_suff=mingw-w64-${CARCH}
+pkgname="${_mingw_suff}-${_realname}"
+pkgver=2.1
+pkgrel=1
+pkgdesc="Extended-Rice lossless compression algorithm implementation"
+arch=('any')
+url="http://www.hdfgroup.org/doc_resource/SZIP/"
+source=(
+  "http://www.hdfgroup.org/ftp/lib-external/szip/${pkgver}/src/szip-${pkgver}.tar.gz"
+  "szip-hdf5.patch"
+  )
+md5sums=(
+  "902f831bcefb69c6b635374424acbead"
+  "2ac1108913387e1f7b4749a18cc353a3"
+  )
+makedepends=("${_mingw_suff}-gcc" "${_mingw_suff}-cmake")
+options=('staticlibs' 'strip')
+
+prepare() {
+  cd ${srcdir}/${_realname}-${pkgver}
+  patch -p0 -i ${srcdir}/szip-hdf5.patch
+}
+
+build() {
+  [[ -d ${srcdir}/build-${MINGW_CHOST} ]] && rm -rf ${srcdir}/build-${MINGW_CHOST}
+  mkdir -p ${srcdir}/build-${MINGW_CHOST} && cd ${srcdir}/build-${MINGW_CHOST}
+  ${MINGW_PREFIX}/bin/cmake.exe \
+    -G"MSYS Makefiles" \
+    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=${pkgdir}${MINGW_PREFIX} \
+    -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON \
+    -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
+    -DCMAKE_SKIP_RPATH=ON \
+    ../${_realname}-${pkgver}
+  make
+}
+
+package() {
+  cd "${srcdir}/build-${MINGW_CHOST}"
+  make -j1 install
+  
+  # clear README, licenses, etc. or shall we move them to another place?
+  for f in ${pkgdir}${MINGW_PREFIX}/share/*
+  do
+    [[ -f $f ]] && rm -f $f
+  done
+  
+  mv ${pkgdir}${MINGW_PREFIX}/lib/szip.lib ${pkgdir}${MINGW_PREFIX}/lib/libszip.dll.a
+  sed -s "s|szip\.lib|libszip\.dll\.a|g" -i ${pkgdir}${MINGW_PREFIX}/share/cmake/SZIP/SZIP-targets-release.cmake
+  sed -s 's|"${_IMPORT_PREFIX}/include"|"${_IMPORT_PREFIX}/include" PATH|g' -i ${pkgdir}${MINGW_PREFIX}/share/cmake/SZIP/SZIP-config.cmake
+}
diff --git a/mingw-w64-szip/szip-hdf5.patch b/mingw-w64-szip/szip-hdf5.patch
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+++ b/mingw-w64-szip/szip-hdf5.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- src/CMakeLists.txt.orig	2011-05-18 02:35:35.000000000 +0800
++++ src/CMakeLists.txt	2014-04-29 17:55:45.736717000 +0800
+@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
+ #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ INSTALL (
+     FILES
+-        ${SZIP_PUBLIC_HEADERS}
++        ${SZIP_PUBLIC_HEADERS} ${SZIP_HDRS}
+     DESTINATION
+         ${SZIP_INSTALL_INCLUDE_DIR}
+     COMPONENT