diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index aa49fc214..323d3eba5 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -160,6 +160,7 @@ install:
     fi'
 
   - which python2
+  - cmake --version
 
 script:
 
@@ -229,7 +230,7 @@ script:
   - if [[ "$cmake" == "1" ]]; then
       export CXX=g++-5 &&
       export CC=gcc-5 &&
-      cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-Werror" -Dbuild_tests=ON -Dbuild_examples=ON -G "CodeBlocks - Unix Makefiles" .. &&
+      cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-Werror" -Dbuild_tests=ON -Dbuild_examples=ON -Dpython-bindings=ON -G "CodeBlocks - Unix Makefiles" .. &&
       cmake --build . -- -j2;
     fi
   - cd ..
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 79eb5b59b..242ca4cf0 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.1.0 FATAL_ERROR)
+cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.3.0 FATAL_ERROR)
 
 project(libtorrent)
 set (SOVERSION "10")
@@ -449,6 +449,7 @@ option(libiconv "enable linking against system libiconv" OFF)
 option(logging "build with logging" ON)
 option(build_tests "build tests" OFF)
 option(build_examples "build examples" OFF)
+option(python-bindings "build python bindings" OFF)
 
 set(CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES Debug Release RelWithDebInfo)
 
@@ -683,6 +684,10 @@ endforeach (s)
 
 configure_file(libtorrent-rasterbar-cmake.pc.in libtorrent-rasterbar.pc)
 
+include(CheckCXXCompilerFlag)
+
+add_subdirectory(bindings)
+
 string (COMPARE EQUAL "${CMAKE_SIZEOF_VOID_P}" "8" IS64BITS)
 
 if (IS64BITS AND RESPECTLIB64)
diff --git a/appveyor.yml b/appveyor.yml
index b6286c17d..0aab46bb0 100644
--- a/appveyor.yml
+++ b/appveyor.yml
@@ -96,7 +96,8 @@ build_script:
 - cd %ROOT_DIRECTORY%
 - mkdir build && cd build
 - if defined cmake (
-  cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="/WX" -G "Visual Studio 14 2015 Win64" .. &&
+  set "PATH=c:\Python27-x64;%PATH%" &&
+  cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="/WX /wd4244 /wd4459" -Dpython-bindings=%python% -Dboost-python-module-name="python" -Dskip-python-runtime-test=true -DPython_ADDITIONAL_VERSIONS="2.7" -G "Visual Studio 14 2015 Win64" .. &&
   cmake --build .
   )
 
diff --git a/bindings/CMakeLists.txt b/bindings/CMakeLists.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5dd618f7c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bindings/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+if (python-bindings)
+	add_subdirectory(python)
+endif()
diff --git a/bindings/python/CMakeLists.txt b/bindings/python/CMakeLists.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2ec652c14
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bindings/python/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,143 @@
+# To build python bindings we need a python executable and boost python module. Unfortunately,
+# their names might not be interlinked and we can not implement a general solution.
+# The code below assumes default boost installation, when the module for python 2 is named
+# 'python' and the module for python 3 is named 'python3'.
+# To customize that one can provide a name for the Boost::python module via
+# 'boost-python-module-name' variable when invoking cmake.
+# E.g. on Gentoo with python 3.6 and Boost::python library name 'libboost_python-3.6.so'
+# the parameter would be -Dboost-python-module-name="python-3.6".
+
+# The extension module and the cpython executable have to use the same C runtime library. On Windows
+# Python is compiled with MSVC and we will test MSVC version to make sure that it is the same for
+# the given Python version and our extension module. See https://wiki.python.org/moin/WindowsCompilers
+# for details. We provide a flag to skip this test for whatever reason (pass -Dskip-python-runtime-test=True)
+
+# Sets _ret to a list of python versions (major.minor) that use the same MSVC runtime as this build does
+# assumes MSVC was detected already
+# See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_C++#Internal_version_numbering
+function(_get_compatible_python_versions _ret)
+	if (CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_VERSION VERSION_GREATER_EQUAL 15 AND CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_VERSION VERSION_LESS 16)
+		list(APPEND _tmp 2.6 2.7 3.0 3.1 3.2)
+	elseif(CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_VERSION VERSION_GREATER_EQUAL 16 AND CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_VERSION VERSION_LESS 17)
+		list(APPEND _tmp 3.3 3.4)
+	elseif(CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_VERSION VERSION_GREATER_EQUAL 19 AND CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_VERSION VERSION_LESS 20)
+		list(APPEND _tmp 3.5 3.6)
+	endif()
+	set(${_ret} ${_tmp} PARENT_SCOPE)
+endfunction()
+
+
+if (CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID MATCHES "MSVC" AND NOT skip-python-runtime-test)
+	_get_compatible_python_versions(Python_ADDITIONAL_VERSIONS)
+endif()
+
+find_package(PythonInterp REQUIRED)
+if (CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID MATCHES "MSVC" AND NOT skip-python-runtime-test)
+	message(STATUS "Testing found python version. Requested: ${Python_ADDITIONAL_VERSIONS}, found: ${PYTHON_VERSION_MAJOR}.${PYTHON_VERSION_MINOR}")
+	if (NOT "${PYTHON_VERSION_MAJOR}.${PYTHON_VERSION_MINOR}" IN_LIST Python_ADDITIONAL_VERSIONS)
+		message(FATAL_ERROR "Incompatible Python and C runtime: MSVC ${CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_VERSION} and Python ${PYTHON_VERSION_STRING}")
+	endif()
+endif()
+
+set(Python_ADDITIONAL_VERSIONS "${PYTHON_VERSION_MAJOR}.${PYTHON_VERSION_MINOR}")
+find_package(PythonLibs REQUIRED)
+
+if (NOT boost-python-module-name)
+	# use active python
+	if (PYTHON_VERSION_STRING VERSION_GREATER_EQUAL "3")
+		set(_boost-python-module-name "python${PYTHON_VERSION_MAJOR}")
+	else()
+		set(_boost-python-module-name "python") # to overwrite possible value from a previous run
+	endif()
+endif()
+
+set(boost-python-module-name ${_boost-python-module-name} CACHE STRING "Boost:python module name, e.g. 'pythom-3.6'")
+
+find_package(Boost REQUIRED COMPONENTS ${boost-python-module-name})
+
+python_add_module(python-libtorrent
+	src/module.cpp
+	src/sha1_hash.cpp
+	src/converters.cpp
+	src/create_torrent.cpp
+	src/fingerprint.cpp
+	src/utility.cpp
+	src/session.cpp
+	src/entry.cpp
+	src/torrent_info.cpp
+	src/string.cpp
+	src/torrent_handle.cpp
+	src/torrent_status.cpp
+	src/session_settings.cpp
+	src/version.cpp
+	src/alert.cpp
+	src/datetime.cpp
+	src/peer_info.cpp
+	src/ip_filter.cpp
+	src/magnet_uri.cpp
+	src/error_code.cpp
+)
+
+set_target_properties(python-libtorrent
+	PROPERTIES
+		OUTPUT_NAME libtorrent
+)
+
+target_include_directories(python-libtorrent PRIVATE ${PYTHON_INCLUDE_DIRS})
+
+target_link_libraries(python-libtorrent
+	PRIVATE
+		torrent-rasterbar
+		Boost::${boost-python-module-name}
+		# Boost::python adds that but without a path to the library. Therefore we have to either
+		# provide the path (but, unfortunately, FindPythonLibs.cmake does not return the library dir),
+		# or give the full file name here (this FindPythonLibs.cmake provides to us).
+		${PYTHON_LIBRARIES}
+)
+
+# Bindings module uses deprecated libtorrent features, thus we disable these errors
+if (CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID MATCHES "GNU|Clang")
+	check_cxx_compiler_flag("-Wno-error=deprecated-declarations" _WNO_ERROR_DEPRECATED_DECLARATIONS)
+	if (_WNO_ERROR_DEPRECATED_DECLARATIONS)
+		target_compile_options(python-libtorrent PRIVATE -Wno-error=deprecated-declarations)
+	endif()
+endif()
+
+execute_process(COMMAND
+  ${PYTHON_EXECUTABLE} -c "import distutils.sysconfig;
+print(';'.join(map(str, [
+	distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib(plat_specific=True, prefix=''),
+	distutils.sysconfig.get_config_var('EXT_SUFFIX')
+])))"
+	OUTPUT_VARIABLE _python_sysconfig_vars OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE)
+
+list(GET _python_sysconfig_vars 0 PYTHON_SITE_PACKAGES)
+list(GET _python_sysconfig_vars 1 PYTHON_EXT_SUFFIX)
+
+message(STATUS "Python site packages: ${PYTHON_SITE_PACKAGES}")
+# python 2 does not provide the 'EXT_SUFFIX' sysconfig variable, so we use cmake default then
+if (NOT "${PYTHON_EXT_SUFFIX}" STREQUAL "None")
+	message(STATUS "Python extension suffix: ${PYTHON_EXT_SUFFIX}")
+	# we mimic the name, created by setuptools
+	# example: libtorrent.cpython-36m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
+	set_target_properties(python-libtorrent PROPERTIES SUFFIX ${PYTHON_EXT_SUFFIX})
+endif()
+
+set(SETUP_PY_IN "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/setup.py.cmake.in")
+set(SETUP_PY    "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/setup.py")
+set(OUTPUT      "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/timestamp")
+set(DEPS        python-libtorrent "${SETUP_PY}")
+
+configure_file(${SETUP_PY_IN} ${SETUP_PY} @ONLY)
+
+add_custom_command(OUTPUT ${OUTPUT}
+                   COMMAND ${PYTHON_EXECUTABLE} ${SETUP_PY} build -b "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}"
+                   COMMAND ${PYTHON_EXECUTABLE} ${SETUP_PY} egg_info -b "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}"
+                   COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E touch ${OUTPUT}
+                   DEPENDS ${DEPS})
+
+add_custom_target(python_bindings ALL DEPENDS ${OUTPUT})
+
+
+install(TARGETS python-libtorrent DESTINATION "${PYTHON_SITE_PACKAGES}")
+install(DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/libtorrent.egg-info" DESTINATION "${PYTHON_SITE_PACKAGES}")
diff --git a/bindings/python/setup.py.cmake.in b/bindings/python/setup.py.cmake.in
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..42c08b4f1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bindings/python/setup.py.cmake.in
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+from setuptools import setup
+import platform
+
+setup(
+    name='libtorrent',
+    version='@VERSION@',
+    author='Arvid Norberg',
+    author_email='arvid@libtorrent.org',
+    description='Python bindings for libtorrent-rasterbar',
+    long_description='Python bindings for libtorrent-rasterbar',
+    url='http://libtorrent.org',
+    platforms=[platform.system() + '-' + platform.machine()],
+    license='BSD',
+    package_dir = {'': '@CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR@'}
+)
diff --git a/bindings/python/src/error_code.cpp b/bindings/python/src/error_code.cpp
index bd799bd59..cd17cac84 100644
--- a/bindings/python/src/error_code.cpp
+++ b/bindings/python/src/error_code.cpp
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ namespace {
 	struct ec_pickle_suite : boost::python::pickle_suite
 	{
 		static boost::python::tuple
-		getinitargs(error_code const& ec)
+		getinitargs(error_code const&)
 		{
 			return boost::python::tuple();
 		}
diff --git a/bindings/python/src/torrent_info.cpp b/bindings/python/src/torrent_info.cpp
index bb4b49dbe..e5b69d9e2 100644
--- a/bindings/python/src/torrent_info.cpp
+++ b/bindings/python/src/torrent_info.cpp
@@ -162,8 +162,8 @@ namespace
     { return ae.endpoints.empty() ? 0 : ae.endpoints.front().scrape_complete; }
     int get_scrape_downloaded(announce_entry const& ae)
     { return ae.endpoints.empty() ? 0 : ae.endpoints.front().scrape_downloaded; }
-    int next_announce_in(announce_entry const& ae) { return 0; }
-    int min_announce_in(announce_entry const& ae) { return 0; }
+    int next_announce_in(announce_entry const&) { return 0; }
+    int min_announce_in(announce_entry const&) { return 0; }
     bool get_send_stats(announce_entry const& ae) { return ae.send_stats; }
     std::int64_t get_size(file_entry const& fe) { return fe.size; }
     std::int64_t get_offset(file_entry const& fe) { return fe.offset; }
diff --git a/test/CMakeLists.txt b/test/CMakeLists.txt
index 515b52e0d..ceadb472f 100644
--- a/test/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/test/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.6)
 
+# Our tests contain printf formating checks therefore we disable GCC format string errors:
+if (CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID MATCHES "GNU|Clang")
+	check_cxx_compiler_flag("-Wno-error=format-truncation" _WNO_ERROR_FORMAT_TRUNCATION)
+	if (_WNO_ERROR_FORMAT_TRUNCATION)
+		set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -Wno-error=format-truncation")
+	endif()
+endif()
+
 file(GLOB tests "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/test_*.cpp")
 list(REMOVE_ITEM tests "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/test_natpmp.cpp") # doesn't build at time of writing
 list(REMOVE_ITEM tests "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/test_utils.cpp") # helper file, not a test