diff --git a/kiwixbuild/buildenv.py b/kiwixbuild/buildenv.py
index 15680903..fdca6484 100644
--- a/kiwixbuild/buildenv.py
+++ b/kiwixbuild/buildenv.py
@@ -100,6 +100,8 @@ def _is_debianlike(self):
         return os.path.isfile('/etc/debian_version')
 
     def _detect_libdir(self):
+        if getattr(self.platformInfo, 'build', '').startswith('mips'):
+            return 'lib/' + self.platformInfo.arch_full
         if self._is_debianlike():
             try:
                 pc = subprocess.Popen(['dpkg-architecture', '-qDEB_HOST_MULTIARCH'],
diff --git a/kiwixbuild/dependencies/icu4c.py b/kiwixbuild/dependencies/icu4c.py
index cc1587a1..ef29e528 100644
--- a/kiwixbuild/dependencies/icu4c.py
+++ b/kiwixbuild/dependencies/icu4c.py
@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ class Source(SvnClone):
                    "icu4c_custom_data.patch",
                    "icu4c_noxlocale.patch",
                    "icu4c_rpath.patch",
-                   "icu4c_build_config.patch"]
+                   "icu4c_build_config.patch",
+                   "icu4c_run_tools_w_qemu_if_endianess_differs.patch"]
 
 
     class Builder(MakeBuilder):
@@ -41,8 +42,10 @@ def configure_option(self):
                 icu_native_builder = get_target_step(
                     'icu4c',
                     'native_static' if platformInfo.static else 'native_dyn')
-                options += " --with-cross-build={} --disable-tools".format(
+                options += " --with-cross-build={}".format(
                     icu_native_builder.build_path)
+                if platformInfo.build == 'iOS':
+                    options += " --disable-tools"
             if platformInfo.build == 'android':
                 options += " --with-data-packaging=archive"
             return options
diff --git a/kiwixbuild/patches/fixenv-nonstd-libdir b/kiwixbuild/patches/fixenv-nonstd-libdir
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0db8731c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kiwixbuild/patches/fixenv-nonstd-libdir
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+BASENAME=`basename $0`
+SCRIPT=`realpath $0`
+SCRIPTPATH=`dirname $SCRIPT`
+
+if ! test -L "$0"
+then
+  cd "$SCRIPTPATH" && find -type f | grep -v ".real$" | \
+  while read b
+  do
+    if hexdump -C "$b" | head -1 | grep -q ELF
+    then
+      mv -iv "$b" "$b.real"
+      ln -s "$BASENAME" "$b"
+    fi
+  done
+else
+  for fullarch in "" mips-linux-uclibc
+  do for libdir in usr/lib lib
+     do LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${SCRIPTPATH%/bin}/$libdir/$fullarch:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
+     done
+  done
+
+  export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+  exec ${SCRIPTPATH}/$BASENAME.real "$@"
+fi
diff --git a/kiwixbuild/patches/icu4c_run_tools_w_qemu_if_endianess_differs.patch b/kiwixbuild/patches/icu4c_run_tools_w_qemu_if_endianess_differs.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6a3c35f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kiwixbuild/patches/icu4c_run_tools_w_qemu_if_endianess_differs.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+diff -ur icu4c/source/data/Makefile.in icu4c.patched/source/data/Makefile.in
+--- icu4c/source/data/Makefile.in	2018-06-17 03:28:46.646446362 +0200
++++ icu4c.patched/source/data/Makefile.in	2018-06-17 03:30:44.072860064 +0200
+@@ -577,9 +577,9 @@
+ #          There must be a nicer way to do this.
+ 
+ $(CFU_FILES): $(ALL_CFU_SOURCE) $(TOOLBINDIR)/gencfu$(TOOLEXEEXT) $(DAT_FILES)
+-	$(INVOKE) echo ALL_CFU_SOURCE: $(ALL_CFU_SOURCE)
+-	$(INVOKE) echo CFU_FILES: $(CFU_FILES)
+-	$(INVOKE) echo CFU_FILES_SHORT: $(CFU_FILES_SHORT)
++	echo ALL_CFU_SOURCE: $(ALL_CFU_SOURCE)
++	echo CFU_FILES: $(CFU_FILES)
++	echo CFU_FILES_SHORT: $(CFU_FILES_SHORT)
+ 	$(INVOKE) $(TOOLBINDIR)/gencfu -c -i $(BUILDDIR) -r $(word 1,$(ALL_CFU_SOURCE)) -w $(word 2,$(ALL_CFU_SOURCE)) -o $@
+ 
+ 
+diff -ur icu4c/source/Makefile.in icu4c.patched/source/Makefile.in
+--- icu4c/source/Makefile.in	2018-06-17 03:28:45.222465606 +0200
++++ icu4c.patched/source/Makefile.in	2018-06-17 03:29:33.757809798 +0200
+@@ -243,9 +243,20 @@
+ 	@(echo "CROSS_ICU_VERSION=$(VERSION)" ;\
+ 	  echo "TOOLEXEEXT=$(EXEEXT)" \
+ 	   ) > $@
+-	@(echo 'TOOLBINDIR=$$(cross_buildroot)/bin' ;\
++	@(echo '' ;\
++	  echo 'ifneq ($$(ICUDATA_PLATFORM_NAME),$(ICUDATA_PLATFORM_NAME))' ;\
++	  echo 'cross_buildroot=$$(top_builddir)' ;\
++	  echo 'endif' ;\
++	  echo '' ;\
++	  echo 'TOOLBINDIR=$$(cross_buildroot)/bin' ;\
+ 	  echo 'TOOLLIBDIR=$$(cross_buildroot)/lib' ;\
+ 	  echo "INVOKE=$(LDLIBRARYPATH_ENVVAR)=$(LIBRARY_PATH_PREFIX)"'$$(TOOLLIBDIR):$$(cross_buildroot)/stubdata:$$(cross_buildroot)/tools/ctestfw:$$$$'"$(LDLIBRARYPATH_ENVVAR)" ;\
+ 	  echo "PKGDATA_INVOKE=$(LDLIBRARYPATH_ENVVAR)=$(LIBRARY_PATH_PREFIX)"'$$(cross_buildroot)/stubdata:$$(cross_buildroot)/tools/ctestfw:$$(TOOLLIBDIR):$$$$'"$(LDLIBRARYPATH_ENVVAR) " ;\
++	  echo '' ;\
++	  echo 'ifneq ($$(ICUDATA_PLATFORM_NAME),$(ICUDATA_PLATFORM_NAME))' ;\
++	  echo 'export QEMU_SET_ENV:=$$(strip $$(subst $$$$'"$(LDLIBRARYPATH_ENVVAR)"',,$$(INVOKE)))$$(strip $$(subst LD_LIBRARY_PATH=,,$$(QEMU_SET_ENV)))' ;\
++	  echo '$$(eval $$(shell grep host_cpu $$(top_builddir)/config/Makefile.inc))' ;\
++	  echo 'INVOKE=qemu-$$(host_cpu)-static' ;\
++	  echo 'endif' ;\
+ 	  echo ) >> $@
+ 
+ config/icucross.inc: $(top_builddir)/icudefs.mk  $(top_builddir)/Makefile @platform_make_fragment@
diff --git a/kiwixbuild/platforms/__init__.py b/kiwixbuild/platforms/__init__.py
index 4b63719b..d7022420 100644
--- a/kiwixbuild/platforms/__init__.py
+++ b/kiwixbuild/platforms/__init__.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
     armhf,
     i586,
     ios,
+    mips32r2,
     native,
     neutral,
     win32
diff --git a/kiwixbuild/platforms/mips32r2.py b/kiwixbuild/platforms/mips32r2.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2b2797ec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kiwixbuild/platforms/mips32r2.py
@@ -0,0 +1,195 @@
+from .base import PlatformInfo, _SCRIPT_DIR
+
+from kiwixbuild.utils import pj
+from kiwixbuild._global import get_target_step
+
+from glob import glob
+from os import makedirs, chmod, readlink, symlink
+from os.path import basename, islink
+from re import sub as subst
+from shutil import copy2
+
+def copy(src, dst, search=None, repl=None, mode=None):
+    if islink(src):
+        linkto = readlink(src)
+        symlink(linkto, dst)
+    else:
+        if search is None:
+            copy2(src, dst)
+        else:
+            with open(src, "r") as sources:
+                lines = sources.readlines()
+            with open(dst, "w") as sources:
+                for line in lines:
+                    sources.write(subst(search, repl, line))
+    if mode is not None:
+        chmod(dst, mode)
+
+
+class MIPS32R2PlatformInfo(PlatformInfo):
+    build = 'mips32r2_glibc_glibcxx'
+    arch_full = 'mips-linux-gnu'
+    compatible_hosts = ['fedora', 'debian']
+
+    def get_cross_config(self):
+        return {
+            'binaries': self.binaries,
+            'exec_wrapper_def': '',
+            'root_path': self.root_path,
+            'extra_libs': [],
+            'extra_cflags': [],
+            'host_machine': {
+                'system': 'linux',
+                'lsystem': 'linux',
+                'cpu_family': 'mips32r2',
+                'cpu': '24kc',
+                'endian': 'big',
+                'abi': ''
+            }
+        }
+
+    @property
+    def root_path(self):
+        # apt-get'able debian/ubuntu hard-float glibc glibcxx toolchain
+        return '/usr/mips-linux-gnu'
+
+    @property
+    def tcbindir(self):
+        return pj(self.root_path, 'bin')
+
+    @property
+    def tcbinprefix(self):
+        return '../../bin/' + self.arch_full + '-'
+
+    @property
+    def tclibdir(self):
+        return pj(self.root_path, 'lib')
+
+    @property
+    def binaries(self):
+        binaries = ((k,'{}{}'.format(self.tcbinprefix, v))
+                for k, v in (('CC', 'gcc'),
+                             ('CXX', 'g++'),
+                             ('AR', 'ar'),
+                             ('STRIP', 'strip'),
+                             ('WINDRES', 'windres'),
+                             ('RANLIB', 'ranlib'),
+                             ('LD', 'ld'))
+               )
+        return {k:pj(self.tcbindir, v)
+                for k,v in binaries}
+
+    @property
+    def exec_wrapper_def(self):
+        try:
+            which('qemu-mips-static')
+        except subprocess.CalledProcessError:
+            return ""
+        else:
+            return "exec_wrapper = 'qemu-mips-static'"
+
+    @property
+    def configure_option(self):
+        return '--host={}'.format(self.arch_full)
+
+    def set_env(self, env):
+        env['PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR'] = pj(self.tclibdir, 'pkgconfig')
+        env['CFLAGS']   = " -march=mips32r2 -mtune=24kc "+env['CFLAGS']
+        env['CXXFLAGS'] = " -march=mips32r2 -mtune=24kc "+env['CXXFLAGS']
+        env['QEMU_LD_PREFIX'] = pj(self.root_path)
+        env['QEMU_SET_ENV'] = "LD_LIBRARY_PATH={}".format(
+            ':'.join([
+                pj(self.tclibdir),
+                env['LD_LIBRARY_PATH']
+        ]))
+
+    def set_compiler(self, env):
+        env['CC'] = self.binaries['CC']
+        env['CXX'] = self.binaries['CXX']
+
+    def finalize_setup(self):
+        super().finalize_setup()
+        self.buildEnv.cmake_crossfile = self._gen_crossfile('cmake_cross_file.txt')
+        self.buildEnv.meson_crossfile = self._gen_crossfile('meson_cross_file.txt')
+
+class MIPS32R2Dyn(MIPS32R2PlatformInfo):
+    name = MIPS32R2PlatformInfo.build + '_dyn'
+    static = False
+
+class MIPS32R2Static(MIPS32R2PlatformInfo):
+    name = MIPS32R2PlatformInfo.build + '_static'
+    static = True
+
+
+
+
+class MIPS32R2_UC_GCXXPlatformInfo(MIPS32R2PlatformInfo):
+    build = 'mips32r2_uclibc_glibcxx' # "shared, heterogeneous"
+    arch_full = 'mips-linux-uclibc'
+
+    @property
+    def root_path(self):
+        return '/dev/shm/freetz/toolchain/build/mips_gcc-5.5.0_uClibc-0.9.33.2-nptl/mips-linux-uclibc'
+
+    @property
+    def tcbinprefix(self):
+        return self.arch_full + '-'
+
+    def set_env(self, env):
+        super().set_env(env)
+        env['CFLAGS']   = " -msoft-float -Os -pipe -Wa,--trap "+env['CFLAGS']
+        env['CXXFLAGS'] = " -msoft-float -Os -pipe -Wa,--trap "+env['CXXFLAGS']
+
+class MIPS32R2_UC_GCXXDyn(MIPS32R2_UC_GCXXPlatformInfo):
+    name = MIPS32R2_UC_GCXXPlatformInfo.build + '_dyn'
+    static = False
+
+    def finalize_setup(self):
+        super().finalize_setup()
+        d = pj(_SCRIPT_DIR, '..', '..', 'BUILD_'+self.name, 'INSTALL')
+
+        makedirs(pj(d, 'bin'), mode=0o755, exist_ok=True)
+        copy(pj(_SCRIPT_DIR, '..', 'patches', 'fixenv-nonstd-libdir'),
+             pj(d, 'bin', 'fixenv-nonstd-libdir'),
+             search=r'\$\{ARCH_FULL[^}]*\}',
+             repl=self.arch_full,
+             mode=0o755)
+
+        d = pj(d, 'lib', self.arch_full)
+        makedirs(d, mode=0o755, exist_ok=True)
+        for f in glob(pj(self.tclibdir, 'libstdc++.so*')):
+            copy(f, pj(d, basename(f)))
+
+class MIPS32R2_UC_GCXXStatic(MIPS32R2_UC_GCXXPlatformInfo):
+    name = MIPS32R2_UC_GCXXPlatformInfo.build + '_static'
+    static = True
+
+
+
+
+class MIPS32R2_UC_UCXXPlatformInfo(MIPS32R2_UC_GCXXPlatformInfo):
+    build = 'mips32r2_uclibc_uclibcxx' # "pure, homogeneous"
+
+    def get_cross_config(self):
+        conf = super().get_cross_config()
+        conf['extra_libs'] += [ '-lm' ]
+        return conf
+
+    @property
+    def binaries(self):
+        bins = super().binaries
+        bins['CXX'] += '-uc'
+        return bins
+
+    def set_env(self, env):
+        super().set_env(env)
+        # for mips-linux-uclibc-g++-uc wrapper to find real binary
+        env['PATH'] = ':'.join([pj(self.tcbindir), env['PATH']])
+
+class MIPS32R2_UC_UCXXDyn(MIPS32R2_UC_UCXXPlatformInfo):
+    name = MIPS32R2_UC_UCXXPlatformInfo.build + '_dyn'
+    static = False
+
+class MIPS32R2_UC_UCXXStatic(MIPS32R2_UC_UCXXPlatformInfo):
+    name = MIPS32R2_UC_UCXXPlatformInfo.build + '_static'
+    static = True