diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index ae19cfb..0aaab96 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -4,3 +4,6 @@
 [submodule "deps/curl"]
 	path = deps/curl
 	url = https://github.com/curl/curl.git
+[submodule "deps/geoip-api-c"]
+	path = deps/geoip-api-c
+	url = https://github.com/maxmind/geoip-api-c.git
diff --git a/deps/build.sh b/deps/build.sh
index 2c5afd3..992f0b8 100755
--- a/deps/build.sh
+++ b/deps/build.sh
@@ -18,3 +18,11 @@ cd curl
 make -j24
 make install DESTDIR=$PWD/../build/
 cd ../
+
+
+cd geoip-api-c/
+./bootstrap
+./configure --enable-static
+make -j24
+make install DESTDIR=$PWD/../build/
+cd ../
diff --git a/deps/geoip-api-c b/deps/geoip-api-c
new file mode 160000
index 0000000..204cc59
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deps/geoip-api-c
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 204cc59067839c06cc0f7d27e23c06b1c2555ead