diff --git a/contrib/PKGBUILD b/contrib/PKGBUILD
index 396bf0b60..be40956b4 100644
--- a/contrib/PKGBUILD
+++ b/contrib/PKGBUILD
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ url='https://github.com/hughsie/fwupd'
 license=('GPL2')
 depends=('appstream-glib' 'fwupdate' 'colord')
 makedepends=('meson' 'valgrind' 'gobject-introspection' 'gtk-doc' 'python-pillow' 'git'
-             'python-cairo' 'ttf-dejavu' 'adobe-source-han-sans-cn-fonts' 'python-gobject')
+             'python-cairo' 'ttf-dejavu' 'adobe-source-han-sans-cn-fonts' 'python-gobject' 'vala')
 
 build() {
     cd ${pkgname}
diff --git a/contrib/ci/dependencies.xml b/contrib/ci/dependencies.xml
index fd4d772c3..3fa910549 100644
--- a/contrib/ci/dependencies.xml
+++ b/contrib/ci/dependencies.xml
@@ -908,6 +908,24 @@
       <package variant="x86_64" />
     </distro>
   </dependency>
+  <dependency type="build" id="valac">
+    <distro id="arch">
+      <package>vala</package>
+    </distro>
+    <distro id="fedora">
+      <package>vala</package>
+    </distro>
+    <distro id="debian">
+      <control />
+      <package variant="x86_64" />
+      <package variant="s390x" />
+      <package variant="i386" />
+    </distro>
+    <distro id="ubuntu">
+      <control />
+      <package variant="x86_64" />
+    </distro>
+  </dependency>
   <dependency type="build" id="valgrind">
     <distro id="arch">
       <package />
diff --git a/contrib/debian/libfwupd-dev.install b/contrib/debian/libfwupd-dev.install
index b83628b5f..dbc3671c9 100644
--- a/contrib/debian/libfwupd-dev.install
+++ b/contrib/debian/libfwupd-dev.install
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@ usr/include/fwupd-1/libfwupd
 usr/lib/*/libfwupd*.so
 usr/lib/*/pkgconfig/fwupd.pc
 usr/share/gir-1.0/Fwupd*.gir
+usr/share/vala/vapi
diff --git a/contrib/fwupd.spec.in b/contrib/fwupd.spec.in
index 004d077b1..8116f153e 100644
--- a/contrib/fwupd.spec.in
+++ b/contrib/fwupd.spec.in
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ BuildRequires: gnutls-utils
 BuildRequires: meson
 BuildRequires: help2man
 BuildRequires: json-glib-devel >= %{json_glib_version}
+BuildRequires: vala
 
 %if 0%{?have_uefi}
 BuildRequires: python3 python3-cairo python3-gobject python3-pillow
@@ -251,6 +252,7 @@ mkdir -p --mode=0700 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_localstatedir}/lib/fwupd/gnupg
 %files devel
 %{_datadir}/gir-1.0/Fwupd-2.0.gir
 %{_datadir}/gtk-doc/html/libfwupd
+%{_datadir}/vala/vapi
 %{_includedir}/fwupd-1
 %{_libdir}/libfwupd*.so
 %{_libdir}/pkgconfig/fwupd.pc
diff --git a/libfwupd/meson.build b/libfwupd/meson.build
index 48493fece..ef8ef1a0b 100644
--- a/libfwupd/meson.build
+++ b/libfwupd/meson.build
@@ -108,6 +108,12 @@ if get_option('introspection')
     install : true
   )
 
+  gnome.generate_vapi('libfwupd-2.0',
+    sources: gir[0],
+    packages : ['gio-2.0', 'libsoup-2.4'],
+    install : true,
+  )
+
   # Verify the map file is correct -- note we can't actually use the generated
   # file for two reasons:
   #