diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 965d89d66c..bb74710684 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -923,7 +923,7 @@ OBJS = src/proto_http.o src/cfgparse.o src/server.o src/stream.o        \
        src/protocol.o src/lru.o src/hdr_idx.o src/hpack-huff.o          \
        src/mailers.o src/h2.o src/base64.o src/hash.o src/http.o	\
        src/http_acl.o src/http_fetch.o src/http_conv.o src/http_act.o   \
-       src/http_rules.o src/proto_sockpair.o
+       src/http_rules.o src/proto_sockpair.o src/proto_htx.o
 
 EBTREE_OBJS = $(EBTREE_DIR)/ebtree.o $(EBTREE_DIR)/eb32sctree.o \
               $(EBTREE_DIR)/eb32tree.o $(EBTREE_DIR)/eb64tree.o \
diff --git a/src/proto_htx.c b/src/proto_htx.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ec29cbcb0b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/proto_htx.c
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+/*
+ * HTTP protocol analyzer
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2018 HAProxy Technologies, Christopher Faulet <cfaulet@haproxy.com>
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+ * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
+ * 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ */
+
+__attribute__((constructor))
+static void __htx_protocol_init(void)
+{
+}
+
+
+/*
+ * Local variables:
+ *  c-indent-level: 8
+ *  c-basic-offset: 8
+ * End:
+ */