diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 4ce6a4d..3a7a198 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 #
 
 CXX = c++
-CXXFLAGS = -pthread -std=c++0x
+CXXFLAGS = -pthread -std=c++0x -fPIC -m64
 OBJS = args.o dictionary.o productquantizer.o matrix.o shmem_matrix.o qmatrix.o vector.o model.o utils.o fasttext.o
 INCLUDES = -I.
 ifneq ($(shell uname),Darwin)
@@ -54,5 +54,11 @@ fasttext.o: src/fasttext.cc src/*.h
 fasttext: $(OBJS) src/fasttext.cc
 	$(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) $(OBJS) src/main.cc -o fasttext $(LINK_RT)
 
+sent2vec.o: $(OBJS) src/sent2vec.cc src/*.h
+	$(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) -c src/sent2vec.cc
+
+so: $(OBJS) sent2vec.o
+	$(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) $(OBJS) sent2vec.o -shared -o libsent2vec.so $(LINK_RT)
+
 clean:
-	rm -rf *.o fasttext
+	rm -rf *.o *.so fasttext
diff --git a/src/sent2vec.cc b/src/sent2vec.cc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..66c9d28
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/sent2vec.cc
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+
+#include "fasttext.h"
+
+using namespace fasttext;
+
+extern "C" void* loadModel(char* path)
+{
+    FastText* fastText = new FastText();
+    (*fastText).loadModel(std::string(path));
+    return fastText;
+}
+
+extern "C" void freeModel(void* modelPtr)
+{
+    FastText* model = (FastText*)modelPtr;
+    free(model);
+}
+
+extern "C" int getDimension(void* modelPtr)
+{
+    FastText* model = (FastText*)modelPtr;
+    return (*model).getDimension();
+}
+
+extern "C" void getSentenceVector(
+    void* modelPtr,
+    char* input,
+    float* svec
+)
+{
+    FastText* model = (FastText*)modelPtr;
+    int dim = (*model).getDimension();
+    std::vector<std::string> strList(1);
+    strList[0] = std::string(input);
+    std::vector<float> vector(dim);
+    (*model).textVectors(strList, 1, vector);
+    memcpy(svec, &vector[0], vector.size() * sizeof(float));
+}