diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index a10ea379..578e58a1 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -4,3 +4,6 @@
 [submodule "extlib/xfile"]
 	path = extlib/xfile
 	url = git://github.com/wasabiz/xfile.git
+[submodule "extlib/xrope"]
+	path = extlib/xrope
+	url = git://github.com/wasabiz/xrope.git
diff --git a/extlib/xrope b/extlib/xrope
new file mode 160000
index 00000000..f8957732
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extlib/xrope
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit f895773208952de7a77a924e833d0c55ef0936ae