diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 6de52bcb8..59504c262 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -25,3 +25,6 @@
 [submodule "thirdparty/libopal"]
 	path = thirdparty/libopal
 	url = ../libopal.git
+[submodule "thirdparty/nanomsg"]
+	path = thirdparty/nanomsg
+	url = https://github.com/nanomsg/nanomsg.git
diff --git a/thirdparty/Makefile.inc b/thirdparty/Makefile.inc
index cd4b0ed43..e1eddf17d 100644
--- a/thirdparty/Makefile.inc
+++ b/thirdparty/Makefile.inc
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 # along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 ###################################################################################
 
-DEPS_CMAKE = libxil libwebsockets criterion jansson
+DEPS_CMAKE = libxil libwebsockets criterion jansson nanomsg
 DEPS_AUTOCONF = libnl libconfig libcurl
 
 DEPS = $(DEPS_CMAKE) $(DEPS_AUTOCONF)
diff --git a/thirdparty/nanomsg b/thirdparty/nanomsg
new file mode 160000
index 000000000..5cc007452
--- /dev/null
+++ b/thirdparty/nanomsg
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 5cc0074524684797dd5cd9067bbccbefe1513996