diff --git a/ports/szip/CONTROL b/ports/szip/CONTROL
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cabcb582b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ports/szip/CONTROL
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Source: szip
+Version: 2.1
+Description: Szip compression software, providing lossless compression of scientific data
diff --git a/ports/szip/disable-static-lib-in-shared-build.patch b/ports/szip/disable-static-lib-in-shared-build.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f06e6dcf63
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ports/szip/disable-static-lib-in-shared-build.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+--- a/src/CMakeLists.txt	Mon Aug 03 17:10:33 2015
++++ b/src/CMakeLists.txt	Fri Jan 13 09:38:07 2017
+@@ -22,20 +22,22 @@
+     ${SZIP_SRC_SOURCE_DIR}/szlib.h
+ )
+ 
+-add_library (${SZIP_LIB_TARGET} STATIC ${SZIP_SRCS} ${SZIP_PUBLIC_HEADERS})
+-#set_target_properties (${SZIP_LIB_TARGET}
+-#  PROPERTIES
+-#      LINK_FLAGS "-version-info 2:0:0"
+-#)
+-TARGET_C_PROPERTIES (${SZIP_LIB_TARGET} STATIC " " " ")
+-target_link_libraries (${SZIP_LIB_TARGET} ${LINK_LIBS})
+-set_target_properties(${SZIP_LIB_TARGET} PROPERTIES
+-    PUBLIC_HEADER "${SZIP_PUBLIC_HEADERS}"
+-    INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES "$<INSTALL_INTERFACE:$<INSTALL_PREFIX>/include>"
+-)
+-set_global_variable (SZIP_LIBRARIES_TO_EXPORT ${SZIP_LIB_TARGET})
+-SZIP_SET_LIB_OPTIONS (${SZIP_LIB_TARGET} ${SZIP_LIB_NAME} STATIC)
+-set (install_targets ${SZIP_LIB_TARGET})
++if (NOT BUILD_SHARED_LIBS)
++  add_library (${SZIP_LIB_TARGET} STATIC ${SZIP_SRCS} ${SZIP_PUBLIC_HEADERS})
++  #set_target_properties (${SZIP_LIB_TARGET}
++  #  PROPERTIES
++  #      LINK_FLAGS "-version-info 2:0:0"
++  #)
++  TARGET_C_PROPERTIES (${SZIP_LIB_TARGET} STATIC " " " ")
++  target_link_libraries (${SZIP_LIB_TARGET} ${LINK_LIBS})
++  set_target_properties(${SZIP_LIB_TARGET} PROPERTIES
++      PUBLIC_HEADER "${SZIP_PUBLIC_HEADERS}"
++      INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES "$<INSTALL_INTERFACE:$<INSTALL_PREFIX>/include>"
++  )
++  set_global_variable (SZIP_LIBRARIES_TO_EXPORT ${SZIP_LIB_TARGET})
++  SZIP_SET_LIB_OPTIONS (${SZIP_LIB_TARGET} ${SZIP_LIB_NAME} STATIC)
++  set (install_targets ${SZIP_LIB_TARGET})
++endif()
+ 
+ if (BUILD_SHARED_LIBS)
+   add_library (${SZIP_LIBSH_TARGET} SHARED ${SZIP_SRCS} ${SZIP_PUBLIC_HEADERS})
diff --git a/ports/szip/portfile.cmake b/ports/szip/portfile.cmake
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..06040cedc3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ports/szip/portfile.cmake
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+include(vcpkg_common_functions)
+
+# set(SOURCE_PATH ${CURRENT_BUILDTREES_DIR}/src/szip-2.1)
+# vcpkg_download_distfile(ARCHIVE
+#     URLS "https://support.hdfgroup.org/ftp/lib-external/szip/2.1/src/szip-2.1.tar.gz"
+#     FILENAME "szip-2.1.tar.gz"
+#     SHA512 ea91b877bb061fe6c96988a3c4b705e101a6950e34e9be53d6a57455c6a625be0afa60f4a3cfdd09649205b9f8586cc25ea60fe07a8131579acf3826b35fb749
+# )
+# vcpkg_extract_source_archive(${ARCHIVE})
+
+# NOTE: We use Szip from the HDF5 cmake package dir, because it includes a lot of fixes for the CMake build files
+
+set(SOURCE_PATH ${CURRENT_BUILDTREES_DIR}/src/CMake-hdf5-1.10.0-patch1)
+vcpkg_download_distfile(ARCHIVE
+    URLS "http://hdf4.org/ftp/HDF5/releases/hdf5-1.10/hdf5-1.10.0-patch1/src/CMake-hdf5-1.10.0-patch1.zip"
+    FILENAME "CMake-hdf5-1.10.0-patch1.zip"
+    SHA512 ec2edb43438661323be5998ecf64c4dd537ddc7451e31f89390260d16883e60a1ccc1bf745bcb809af22f2bf7157d50331a33910b8ebf5c59cd50693dfb2ef8f
+)
+vcpkg_extract_source_archive(${ARCHIVE})
+set(ARCHIVE ${SOURCE_PATH}/SZip.tar.gz)
+vcpkg_extract_source_archive(${ARCHIVE})
+set(SOURCE_PATH ${CURRENT_BUILDTREES_DIR}/src/Szip)
+
+vcpkg_apply_patches(
+    SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PATCHES
+        ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/disable-static-lib-in-shared-build.patch
+)
+
+vcpkg_configure_cmake(
+    SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    OPTIONS
+        -DCMAKE_INSTALL_SYSTEM_RUNTIME_LIBS_SKIP=1
+        -DSZIP_INSTALL_DATA_DIR=share/szip/data
+        -DSZIP_INSTALL_CMAKE_DIR=share/szip
+)
+
+vcpkg_install_cmake()
+vcpkg_copy_pdbs()
+
+file(RENAME ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/share/szip/data/COPYING ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/share/szip/copyright)
+
+file(READ ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/debug/share/szip/szip-targets-debug.cmake SZIP_TARGETS_DEBUG_MODULE)
+string(REPLACE "\${_IMPORT_PREFIX}" "\${_IMPORT_PREFIX}/debug" SZIP_TARGETS_DEBUG_MODULE "${SZIP_TARGETS_DEBUG_MODULE}")
+file(WRITE ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/share/szip/szip-targets-debug.cmake "${SZIP_TARGETS_DEBUG_MODULE}")
+
+file(REMOVE_RECURSE ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/debug/share)
+file(REMOVE_RECURSE ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/debug/include)