diff --git a/gnu/packages/pcre.scm b/gnu/packages/pcre.scm
index 5719b7bb45..21752e9cfd 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/pcre.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/pcre.scm
@@ -50,7 +50,8 @@
    (build-system gnu-build-system)
    (outputs '("out"           ;library & headers
               "bin"           ;depends on Readline (adds 20MiB to the closure)
-              "doc"))         ;1.8 MiB of HTML
+              "doc"           ;1.8 MiB of HTML
+              "static"))      ;1.8 MiB static libraries
    (inputs `(("bzip2" ,bzip2)
              ("readline" ,readline)
              ("zlib" ,zlib)))
@@ -63,7 +64,19 @@
                           "--enable-unicode-properties"
                           "--enable-pcre16"
                           "--enable-pcre32"
-                          "--enable-jit")))
+                          "--enable-jit")
+      #:phases (modify-phases %standard-phases
+                 (add-after 'install 'move-static-libs
+                   (lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys)
+                     (let ((source (string-append (assoc-ref outputs "out") "/lib"))
+                           (static (string-append (assoc-ref outputs "static") "/lib")))
+                       (mkdir-p static)
+                       (for-each (lambda (lib)
+                                   (link lib (string-append static "/"
+                                                            (basename lib)))
+                                   (delete-file lib))
+                                 (find-files source "\\.a$"))
+                       #t))))))
    (synopsis "Perl Compatible Regular Expressions")
    (description
     "The PCRE library is a set of functions that implement regular expression