diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index d7201387a..54714e5cd 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
 [submodule "externals/inih/inih"]
 	path = externals/inih/inih
 	url = https://github.com/svn2github/inih
+[submodule "externals/boost"]
+	path = externals/boost
+	url = https://github.com/citra-emu/ext-boost.git
diff --git a/externals/boost b/externals/boost
new file mode 160000
index 000000000..b060148c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/externals/boost
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit b060148c08ae87a3a5809c4f48cb26ac667487ab