diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-extended/docopt.cpp/docopt.cpp/0001-Set-library-VERSION-and-SOVERSION.patch b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-extended/docopt.cpp/docopt.cpp/0001-Set-library-VERSION-and-SOVERSION.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d4c7765
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-extended/docopt.cpp/docopt.cpp/0001-Set-library-VERSION-and-SOVERSION.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+From a47ca75702318ff43446c70120f7aacde4ccee1b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Eero Aaltonen <eero.aaltonen@vaisala.com>
+Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 16:21:20 +0300
+Subject: [PATCH] Set library VERSION and SOVERSION
+
+With soversion and version specified, `install` target will install the
+library with the specified version and also create the proper symlink.
+
+Upstream-Status: Submitted [https://github.com/docopt/docopt.cpp/pull/112]
+but unlikely to be merged soon as it is a duplicate of
+[https://github.com/docopt/docopt.cpp/pull/112] which has been **Open**
+since 2016-12-08.
+---
+ CMakeLists.txt | 4 ++++
+ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
+
+diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
+index 23da468..feff32e 100644
+--- a/CMakeLists.txt
++++ b/CMakeLists.txt
+@@ -50,6 +50,10 @@ else()
+     set_target_properties(docopt_o PROPERTIES POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE TRUE)
+ 
+     add_library(docopt SHARED $<TARGET_OBJECTS:docopt_o>)
++	set_target_properties(docopt PROPERTIES
++		VERSION ${PROJECT_VERSION}
++		SOVERSION ${PROJECT_VERSION_MAJOR}
++		)
+     add_library(docopt_s STATIC $<TARGET_OBJECTS:docopt_o>)
+ endif()
+ 
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-extended/docopt.cpp/docopt.cpp_git.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-extended/docopt.cpp/docopt.cpp_git.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..aa55ebf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-extended/docopt.cpp/docopt.cpp_git.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+SUMMARY = "C++11 port of docopt command-line interface description language and parser"
+
+DESCRIPTION = "docopt is library that lets you define a command line interface with the \
+utility argument syntax that has been used by command line utilities for \
+decades (formalized in POSIX.1-2017). From the description, docopt \
+automatically generates a parser for the command line arguments."
+
+HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/docopt/docopt.cpp"
+
+LICENSE = "MIT | BSL-1.0"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "\
+    file://LICENSE-Boost-1.0;md5=e4224ccaecb14d942c71d31bef20d78c \
+    file://LICENSE-MIT;md5=4b242fd9ef20207e18286d73da8a6677 \
+"
+
+DEPENDS = "boost"
+SRCREV = "3dd23e3280f213bacefdf5fcb04857bf52e90917"
+PV = "0.6.2+git${SRCPV}"
+
+SRC_URI = "\
+    git://github.com/docopt/docopt.cpp.git;protocol=https \
+    file://0001-Set-library-VERSION-and-SOVERSION.patch \
+"
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
+
+inherit cmake