diff --git a/docs/Makefile.am b/docs/Makefile.am
index c23bc134ffd6b3d5433de244d9f8ad33a977714c..c24b69a393e49e92c8cc1233afa8b44ca04881c9 100644
--- a/docs/Makefile.am
+++ b/docs/Makefile.am
@@ -80,6 +80,9 @@ qemu_xml = \
   libvirt-qemu-api.xml \
   libvirt-qemu-refs.xml
 
+apidir = $(pkgdatadir)/api
+api_DATA = libvirt-api.xml libvirt-qemu-api.xml
+
 fig = \
   libvirt-net-logical.fig \
   libvirt-net-physical.fig \
diff --git a/libvirt.pc.in b/libvirt.pc.in
index d7a5e55bcea8b9c398e8d28a7cc17ed338ffda2d..c64a7ca1e341012d7985b197f6025d305fc80b0c 100644
--- a/libvirt.pc.in
+++ b/libvirt.pc.in
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ exec_prefix=@exec_prefix@
 libdir=@libdir@
 includedir=@includedir@
 
+libvirt_api=@datadir@/libvirt/libvirt-api.xml
+libvirt_qemu_api=@datadir@/libvirt/libvirt-qemu-api.xml
+
 Name: libvirt
 Version: @VERSION@
 Description: libvirt library
diff --git a/libvirt.spec.in b/libvirt.spec.in
index 8579ba8ffa8af4c0b03543d6f1a828fb316d2853..7d78cbf50908e27d1facd607d402b8a89bfea50a 100644
--- a/libvirt.spec.in
+++ b/libvirt.spec.in
@@ -1141,6 +1141,10 @@ fi
 %doc %{_datadir}/gtk-doc/html/libvirt/*.png
 %doc %{_datadir}/gtk-doc/html/libvirt/*.css
 
+%dir %{_datadir}/libvirt/apis/
+%{_datadir}/libvirt/apis/libvirt-api.xml
+%{_datadir}/libvirt/apis/libvirt-qemu-api.xml
+
 %doc docs/*.html docs/html docs/*.gif
 %doc docs/libvirt-api.xml
 %doc examples/hellolibvirt
diff --git a/mingw32-libvirt.spec.in b/mingw32-libvirt.spec.in
index e071c38eebab3929f10882ec7acc9cfddc6badeb..039bfdc3b7c92d718d7e5887b408c115096e5e2a 100644
--- a/mingw32-libvirt.spec.in
+++ b/mingw32-libvirt.spec.in
@@ -110,6 +110,10 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %{_mingw32_libdir}/libvirt-qemu.dll.a
 %{_mingw32_libdir}/libvirt-qemu.la
 
+%dir %{_mingw32_datadir}/libvirt/apis/
+%{_mingw32_datadir}/libvirt/apis/libvirt-api.xml
+%{_mingw32_datadir}/libvirt/apis/libvirt-qemu-api.xml
+
 %dir %{_mingw32_datadir}/libvirt/
 %dir %{_mingw32_datadir}/libvirt/schemas/
 %{_mingw32_datadir}/libvirt/schemas/basictypes.rng