diff --git a/rust-bindings/rust/.gitignore b/rust-bindings/rust/.gitignore
index 5852e914..d1b2bb90 100644
--- a/rust-bindings/rust/.gitignore
+++ b/rust-bindings/rust/.gitignore
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 /.idea
+/tools
 /*/target
 **/*.rs.bk
 
diff --git a/rust-bindings/rust/Makefile b/rust-bindings/rust/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0754a879
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rust-bindings/rust/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+all: generate-libostree-sys generate-libostree
+
+.PHONY: update-gir-files
+
+# tools
+tools/bin/gir:
+	cargo install --root tools --git https://github.com/gtk-rs/gir.git -- gir
+
+tools/bin/rustdoc-stripper:
+	cargo install --root tools rustdoc-stripper
+
+# gir generate
+gir/%: tools/bin/gir
+	tools/bin/gir -c conf/$*.toml
+
+generate-libostree-sys: gir/libostree-sys
+
+generate-libostree: gir/libostree update-docs
+
+# docs
+update-docs: tools/bin/gir tools/bin/rustdoc-stripper
+	tools/bin/gir -c conf/libostree.toml -m doc
+	tools/bin/rustdoc-stripper -g -o libostree/vendor.md
+	rm libostree/vendor.md
+
+# gir file management
+update-gir-files: \
+	remove-gir-files \
+	gir-files \
+	gir-files/GLib-2.0.gir \
+	gir-files/Gio-2.0.gir \
+	gir-files/GObject-2.0.gir
+
+remove-gir-files:
+	rm -f gir-files/G*-2.0.gir
+
+gir-files:
+	mkdir -p gir-files
+
+%.gir:
+	curl -o $@ -L https://github.com/gtk-rs/gir-files/raw/master/${@F}
+
+gir-files/OSTree-1.0.gir:
+	echo TODO
+	exit 1