diff --git a/drivers/net/meson.build b/drivers/net/meson.build
index bf8fd2cdad..f59bea7905 100644
--- a/drivers/net/meson.build
+++ b/drivers/net/meson.build
@@ -29,7 +29,9 @@ drivers = ['af_packet',
 	'thunderx',
 	'vdev_netvsc',
 	'vhost',
-	'virtio']
+	'virtio',
+	'vmxnet3',
+]
 std_deps = ['ethdev', 'kvargs'] # 'ethdev' also pulls in mbuf, net, eal etc
 std_deps += ['bus_pci']         # very many PMDs depend on PCI, so make std
 std_deps += ['bus_vdev']        # same with vdev bus
diff --git a/drivers/net/vmxnet3/meson.build b/drivers/net/vmxnet3/meson.build
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a92bd28680
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/net/vmxnet3/meson.build
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+# Copyright(c) 2018 Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
+
+allow_experimental_apis = true
+sources += files(
+	'vmxnet3_ethdev.c',
+	'vmxnet3_rxtx.c',
+)
+
+error_cflags = [
+		'-Wno-unused-parameter', '-Wno-unused-value',
+                '-Wno-strict-aliasing', '-Wno-format-extra-args',
+]
+foreach flag: error_cflags
+        if cc.has_argument(flag)
+                cflags += flag
+        endif
+endforeach