diff --git a/Cantera/user/Makefile.in b/Cantera/user/Makefile.in
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3e7740fbf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Cantera/user/Makefile.in
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+#/bin/sh
+###############################################################
+#  $Author$
+#  $Date$
+#  $Revision$
+#
+#  Copyright 2002 California Institute of Technology
+#
+###############################################################
+
+SUFFIXES=
+SUFFIXES= .cpp .d .o
+
+OBJDIR = .
+
+CXX_FLAGS = @CXXFLAGS@ $(CXX_OPT)
+
+# list your object files here
+OBJS    = user.o
+
+CXX_INCLUDES = -I../src
+
+LIB = @buildlib@/libuser.a
+
+DEPENDS = $(OBJS:.o=.d)
+
+%.d:
+	g++ -MM $(CXX_INCLUDES) $*.cpp > $*.d
+
+.cpp.o:
+	@CXX@ -c $< $(CXX_FLAGS) $(CXX_INCLUDES)
+
+.f.o:
+	@F77@ -c $< $(F77_FLAGS) 
+
+all lib: $(LIB)
+
+$(LIB): $(OBJS)
+	@ARCHIVE@ $(LIB) $(OBJS) > /dev/null
+
+clean:
+	$(RM) *.o *~ $(LIB)
+
+depends: $(DEPENDS)
+	cat *.d > .depends
+	$(RM) $(DEPENDS) 
+
+TAGS: 
+	etags *.h *.cpp
+
+ifeq ($(wildcard .depends), .depends)
+include .depends
+endif
+
diff --git a/Cantera/user/user.cpp b/Cantera/user/user.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9e8c793b4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Cantera/user/user.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+/*
+ * This is an example of a user-defined function that can be linked into Cantera.
+ */
+
+#include <iostream>
+
+#include "ct_defs.h"
+using namespace Cantera;
+
+namespace User {
+
+    void hello() {
+        cout << "Hello!" << endl;
+    }
+
+}