diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index f848185..ad749d5 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ env:
 # - USEDOCKER="yes" PROFILE="opengl" DOCKER_IMAGE="dellelce/opengl-base" PREFIX="/app/opengl"
  - USEDOCKER="yes" PROFILE="libgit2" DOCKER_IMAGE="dellelce/libgit2-base" PREFIX="/app/libgit2"
  - USEDOCKER="yes" PROFILE="mosquitto" DOCKER_IMAGE="dellelce/mosquitto-base" PREFIX="/app/mosquitto"
+ - USEDOCKER="yes" PROFILE="libevent" DOCKER_IMAGE="dellelce/libevent-base" PREFIX="/app/libevent"
  - USEDOCKER="no" PREFIX="/tmp/build"
 before_script:
  - mkdir /tmp/build && sudo mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /tmp/build
diff --git a/mkit.profiles.sh b/mkit.profiles.sh
index fe189ac..16c6606 100755
--- a/mkit.profiles.sh
+++ b/mkit.profiles.sh
@@ -455,4 +455,10 @@ profile_proj()
  add_run_dep proj
 }
 
+profile_libevent()
+{
+  add_run_dep openssl
+  add_run_dep libevent
+}
+
 ### EOF ###
diff --git a/modules/libevent/build.sh b/modules/libevent/build.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3c5fe8d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/libevent/build.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+build_libevent()
+{
+ build_raw_lite libevent
+
+ return $?
+}
diff --git a/modules/libevent/hooks/configure.sh b/modules/libevent/hooks/configure.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d13593d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/libevent/hooks/configure.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# generate Makefiles with cmake/"bootstrap"
+
+ cd ${BUILDDIR}/libevent
+ cmake "${srcdir_libevent}"  -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${prefix}