diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index c287fac..5f31bbc 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -679,7 +679,9 @@
 # AC_CONFIG_FILES needs the full name when running autoconf, so we need to use
 # libweston_abi_version here, and outside [] because of m4 quoting rules
 AC_CONFIG_FILES([libweston/libweston-]libweston_major_version[.pc:libweston/libweston.pc.in])
+AC_CONFIG_FILES([libweston/libweston-]libweston_major_version[-uninstalled.pc:libweston/libweston-uninstalled.pc.in])
 AC_CONFIG_FILES([libweston-desktop/libweston-desktop-]libweston_major_version[.pc:libweston-desktop/libweston-desktop.pc.in])
+AC_CONFIG_FILES([libweston-desktop/libweston-desktop-]libweston_major_version[-uninstalled.pc:libweston-desktop/libweston-desktop-uninstalled.pc.in])
 
 AM_CONDITIONAL([HAVE_GIT_REPO], [test -f $srcdir/.git/logs/HEAD])
 
diff --git a/libweston-desktop/libweston-desktop-uninstalled.pc.in b/libweston-desktop/libweston-desktop-uninstalled.pc.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4fb798d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libweston-desktop/libweston-desktop-uninstalled.pc.in
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+libdir=@abs_top_builddir@/.libs
+includedir=@abs_top_srcdir@
+
+Name: libweston-desktop, uninstalled
+Description: Desktop shells abstraction library for libweston compositors (not installed)
+Version: @WESTON_VERSION@
+Requires.private: libweston-@LIBWESTON_MAJOR@-uninstalled wayland-server
+Cflags: -I${includedir}/libweston-desktop -I${includedir}/shared
+Libs: -L${libdir} -lweston-desktop-@LIBWESTON_MAJOR@
diff --git a/libweston/libweston-uninstalled.pc.in b/libweston/libweston-uninstalled.pc.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b6efd8a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libweston/libweston-uninstalled.pc.in
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+libdir=@abs_top_builddir@/.libs
+includedir=@abs_top_srcdir@
+
+Name: libweston API, uninstalled
+Description: Header files for libweston compositors development (not installed)
+Version: @WESTON_VERSION@
+Requires.private: wayland-server pixman-1 xkbcommon
+Cflags: -I${includedir}/libweston -I${includedir}/shared
+Libs: -L${libdir} -lweston-@LIBWESTON_MAJOR@