diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index a5388af69..69218b8fa 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -97,3 +97,6 @@
 [submodule "third_party/rapidcsv"]
 	path = third_party/rapidcsv
 	url = https://github.com/d99kris/rapidcsv
+[submodule "third_party/zlib"]
+	path = third_party/zlib
+	url = https://github.com/madler/zlib.git
diff --git a/premake5.lua b/premake5.lua
index 1faedd90c..3528b634c 100644
--- a/premake5.lua
+++ b/premake5.lua
@@ -262,6 +262,7 @@ workspace("xenia")
   include("third_party/xxhash.lua")
   include("third_party/zarchive.lua")
   include("third_party/zstd.lua")
+  include("third_party/zlib.lua")
 
   if not os.istarget("android") then
     -- SDL2 requires sdl2-config, and as of November 2020 isn't high-quality on
diff --git a/third_party/zlib b/third_party/zlib
new file mode 160000
index 000000000..51b7f2abd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/third_party/zlib
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 51b7f2abdade71cd9bb0e7a373ef2610ec6f9daf
diff --git a/third_party/zlib.lua b/third_party/zlib.lua
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2003eef00
--- /dev/null
+++ b/third_party/zlib.lua
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+group("third_party")
+project("zlib")
+  uuid("13d4073d-f1c9-47e3-a057-79b133596fc2")
+  kind("StaticLib")
+  language("C")
+  files({
+    "zlib/*.c",
+    "zlib/*.h",
+  })
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