diff --git a/ports/argtable2/CONTROL b/ports/argtable2/CONTROL
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1d9b5bc0e1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ports/argtable2/CONTROL
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Source: argtable2
+Version: 2.13-1
+Description: Argtable is an ANSI C library for parsing GNU style command line options with a minimum of fuss.
diff --git a/ports/argtable2/fix-install-dirs.patch b/ports/argtable2/fix-install-dirs.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cc1b925433
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ports/argtable2/fix-install-dirs.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+diff --git a/src/CMakeLists.txt b/src/CMakeLists.txt
+index 3427487..a9b8be0 100644
+--- a/src/CMakeLists.txt
++++ b/src/CMakeLists.txt
+@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
+-# for now, install in subdirectory of source directory by default
+-SET( CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX .. )
++include(GNUInstallDirs)
+ 
+ IF( WIN32 )
+ 	ADD_LIBRARY( argtable2 arg_dbl.c arg_end.c arg_file.c arg_int.c arg_lit.c arg_rem.c arg_str.c argtable2.c argtable2.h getopt.c getopt.h getopt1.c )
+@@ -7,5 +6,9 @@ ELSE( WIN32 )
+ 	ADD_LIBRARY( argtable2 arg_date.c arg_dbl.c arg_end.c arg_file.c arg_int.c arg_lit.c arg_rem.c arg_rex.c arg_str.c argtable2.c argtable2.h getopt.c getopt.h getopt1.c )
+ ENDIF( WIN32 )
+ 
+-INSTALL( TARGETS argtable2 ARCHIVE DESTINATION lib)
+-SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES( argtable2 PROPERTIES DEBUG_POSTFIX d )
+\ No newline at end of file
++INSTALL(TARGETS argtable2 
++	RUNTIME DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_BINDIR}
++    LIBRARY DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR}
++	ARCHIVE DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR}
++)
++INSTALL(FILES argtable2.h DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_INCLUDEDIR})
diff --git a/ports/argtable2/portfile.cmake b/ports/argtable2/portfile.cmake
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6123335ab5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ports/argtable2/portfile.cmake
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+include(vcpkg_common_functions)
+set(SOURCE_PATH ${CURRENT_BUILDTREES_DIR}/src/argtable2-13)
+vcpkg_download_distfile(ARCHIVE
+    URLS "http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/argtable/argtable2-13.tar.gz"
+    FILENAME "argtable-2.13.zip"
+    SHA512 3d8303f3ba529e3241d918c0127a16402ece951efb964d14a06a3a7d29a252812ad3c44e96da28798871e9923e73a2cfe7ebc84139c1397817d632cae25c4585
+)
+
+vcpkg_extract_source_archive(${ARCHIVE})
+
+vcpkg_apply_patches(
+    SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PATCHES "${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/fix-install-dirs.patch"
+)
+
+vcpkg_configure_cmake(
+    SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
+    OPTIONS
+        # Due to missing dllexport flags we export all symbols
+        -DCMAKE_WINDOWS_EXPORT_ALL_SYMBOLS=TRUE
+        -DCMAKE_DEBUG_POSTFIX=d
+)
+
+vcpkg_install_cmake()
+vcpkg_copy_pdbs()
+
+# Remove duplicate include installs
+file(REMOVE_RECURSE ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/debug/include)
+
+# Handle copyright
+file(INSTALL ${SOURCE_PATH}/COPYING DESTINATION ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/share/argtable2 RENAME copyright)