diff --git a/rabbitmq_consumer/Makefile b/rabbitmq_consumer/Makefile
index 6bc8049eb..456727ef8 100644
--- a/rabbitmq_consumer/Makefile
+++ b/rabbitmq_consumer/Makefile
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ LDFLAGS= $(LIBRARY_DIRS) -lrabbitmq -lmysqlclient
 SRCS= inih/ini.c consumer.c
 OBJ=$(SRCS:.c=.o)
 all:$(OBJ)
-	$(CC) $(LDFLAGS) $(OBJ) -o consumer
+	$(CC) $(LDFLAGS) $(OBJ) -o consumer `mysql_config --cflags --libs`
 %.o:%.c
 	$(CC) $(CFLAGS)  $< -o $@
 
diff --git a/rabbitmq_consumer/rabbitmq-message-consumer.spec b/rabbitmq_consumer/rabbitmq-message-consumer.spec
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..cd513d502
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rabbitmq_consumer/rabbitmq-message-consumer.spec
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+%define _topdir         %(echo $PWD)/
+%define name            rabbitmq-message-consumer
+%define release         beta
+%define version         1.0
+%define install_path    /usr/local/skysql/maxscale/
+
+BuildRoot:              %{buildroot}
+Summary:                rabbitmq-message-consumer
+License:                GPL
+Name:                   %{name}
+Version:                %{version}
+Release:                %{release}
+Source:                 %{name}-%{version}-%{release}.tar.gz
+Prefix:                 /
+Group:                  Development/Tools
+#Requires:        
+
+%if 0%{?suse_version}
+BuildRequires: gcc gcc-c++ ncurses-devel bison glibc-devel cmake libgcc_s1 perl make libtool libopenssl-devel libaio libaio-devel mariadb libedit-devel librabbitmq-devel
+%else
+BuildRequires: gcc gcc-c++ ncurses-devel bison glibc-devel cmake libgcc perl make libtool openssl-devel libaio libaio-devel librabbitmq-devel
+%if 0%{?rhel}  == 6
+BuildRequires: libedit-devel
+%endif
+%if 0%{?rhel}  == 7
+BuildRequires: mariadb-devel mariadb-embedded-devel libedit-devel
+%else
+BuildRequires: MariaDB-devel MariaDB-server
+%endif
+%endif
+
+%description
+rabbitmq-message-consumer
+
+%prep
+
+%setup -q
+
+%build
+make clean
+make
+
+%install
+mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{install_path}
+cp consumer $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{install_path}
+
+%clean
+
+%files
+%defattr(-,root,root)
+%{install_path}/consumer
+
+%changelog