diff --git a/libs/mcomms.c b/libs/mcomms.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/libs/meson.build b/libs/meson.build
index 13d8a4dde..bccb064bb 100644
--- a/libs/meson.build
+++ b/libs/meson.build
@@ -63,6 +63,12 @@ string_sources = files(
     'strlcpy.c',
 )
 
+if (get_option('mcomms'))
+    libfvwm3_sources += files(
+      'mcomms.c'
+    )
+endif
+
 # We don't build the string sources on macOS
 # We probably could check for target_system, but nobody is cross-compiling _to_ macOS
 if not (host_machine.system() == 'darwin')
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 68e0e22f4..3c007d4e2 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ all_found_deps = []
 
 # Required dependencies, we can easily iterate over these.
 summary_depvals = {}
-all_req_deps = ['fontconfig', 'ice', 'libevent', 'x11', 'xft', 'xrandr', 'xt']
+all_req_deps = ['fontconfig', 'ice', 'libevent', 'mpack', 'x11', 'xft', 'xrandr', 'xt']
 foreach rd : all_req_deps
     this_dep = dependency(rd, required: true)
     summary_depvals += {rd: this_dep}
diff --git a/meson.options b/meson.options
index ed9b82852..ecac7300e 100644
--- a/meson.options
+++ b/meson.options
@@ -57,6 +57,12 @@ option(
     value: false,
     description: 'Enable generation of man pages',
 )
+option(
+    'mcomms',
+    type: 'boolean',
+    value: false,
+    description: 'Enable new module comms',
+)
 option('nls', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'Enable NLS')
 option('png', type: 'feature', value: 'auto', description: 'Enable png support')
 option(