diff --git a/testing/avida/10-remove-forced-tcmalloc.patch b/testing/avida/10-remove-forced-tcmalloc.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..09b40cfae624373939942849db01a12b34e04126
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/avida/10-remove-forced-tcmalloc.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+The tcmalloc build currently fails on musl (see e.g. [1]). Avida's build system doesn't make it easy to
+disable tcmalloc, so this patch is needed.
+
+[1] https://github.com/gperftools/gperftools/issues/693
+
+diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
+index 30008d679..f1598704a 100644
+--- a/CMakeLists.txt
++++ b/CMakeLists.txt
+@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ SET(LIBRARY_OUTPUT_PATH
+
+
+ ADD_SUBDIRECTORY(libs/apto)
+-IF(NOT WIN32)
++IF(NOT WIN32 AND AVD_ENABLE_TCMALLOC)
+   ADD_SUBDIRECTORY(libs/tcmalloc-1.4)
+ ENDIF(NOT WIN32)
+ ADD_SUBDIRECTORY(avida-core)
+diff --git a/avida-core/CMakeLists.txt b/avida-core/CMakeLists.txt
+index d9d063ef6..053956a91 100644
+--- a/avida-core/CMakeLists.txt
++++ b/avida-core/CMakeLists.txt
+@@ -388,36 +388,6 @@ ENDIF(WIN32)
+ #ENDIF(WIN32)
+
+
+-# Locate TCMalloc
+-IF(NOT TARGET tcmalloc-1.4)
+-  FIND_LIBRARY(TCMALLOC_LIBRARY tcmalloc-1.4 PATHS ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/../cbuild/lib ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/../libs/tcmalloc-1.4/cbuild/lib)
+-  ADD_LIBRARY(tcmalloc-1.4 STATIC IMPORTED)
+-  SET_PROPERTY(TARGET tcmalloc-1.4 PROPERTY IMPORTED_LOCATION "${TCMALLOC_LIBRARY}")
+-ENDIF(NOT TARGET tcmalloc-1.4)
+-
+-
+-# Handle the TCMalloc library
+-# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+-IF(UNIX)
+-  IF (CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER MATCHES ".*icpc.*")
+-    SET(AVD_ENABLE_TCMALLOC FALSE)
+-  ELSE (CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER MATCHES ".*icpc.*")
+-    SET(AVD_ENABLE_TCMALLOC TRUE)
+-  ENDIF (CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER MATCHES ".*icpc.*")
+-ELSE(UNIX)
+-  SET(AVD_ENABLE_TCMALLOC FALSE)
+-ENDIF(UNIX)
+-IF(AVD_ENABLE_TCMALLOC)
+-  # Locate TCMalloc
+-  IF(NOT TARGET tcmalloc-1.4)
+-    FIND_LIBRARY(TCMALLOC_LIBRARY tcmalloc-1.4 PATHS ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/../cbuild/lib ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/../libs/tcmalloc/cbuild/lib)
+-    ADD_LIBRARY(tcmalloc-1.4 STATIC IMPORTED)
+-    SET_PROPERTY(TARGET tcmalloc-1.4 PROPERTY IMPORTED_LOCATION "${TCMALLOC_LIBRARY}")
+-  ENDIF(NOT TARGET tcmalloc-1.4)
+-ENDIF(AVD_ENABLE_TCMALLOC)
+-
+-
+-
+ # Target Processing
+ # - For each enabled target, process its build instructions.  Must occur after
+ # - avida-core has been defined.
diff --git a/testing/avida/APKBUILD b/testing/avida/APKBUILD
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..adf7dafb210145e23c6c80c81e75e7cab374e979
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/avida/APKBUILD
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+# Maintainer: Adam Jensen <acjensen@gmail.com>
+pkgname=avida
+pkgver=0_git20190813
+_sha=ca1f311bc1bcaf021390c63bce6aa9455bbd44cc
+_apto_sha=9184c91a3a82297c420540baaf355aac80213a29
+pkgrel=0
+pkgdesc="A scientific software platform for conducting and analyzing experiments with self-replicating and evolving computer programs"
+url="https://avida.devosoft.org/"
+arch="x86 x86_64" # build currently fails on non-intel arches
+license="GPL-3.0-only"
+makedepends="cmake linux-headers"
+source="$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://github.com/devosoft/avida/archive/$_sha.tar.gz
+	apto.tar.gz::https://github.com/dmbryson/apto/archive/$_apto_sha.tar.gz
+	10-remove-forced-tcmalloc.patch"
+builddir="$srcdir/avida-$_sha"
+
+prepare() {
+	rm -rf "$builddir"/libs/apto && mv "$srcdir"/apto-$_apto_sha "$builddir"/libs/apto
+
+	default_prepare
+}
+
+build() {
+	cmake -B build \
+		-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/usr \
+		-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=None \
+		-DAVD_UNIT_TESTS:BOOL=ON \
+		-DAVD_ENABLE_TCMALLOC:BOOL=OFF \
+		-DHAVE_FUSED_MADD:BOOL=OFF \
+		-DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -Wno-expansion-to-defined"
+	make -C build
+}
+
+check() {
+	build/bin/unit-tests
+}
+
+package() {
+	install -Dm755 build/bin/avida "$pkgdir"/usr/bin/avida
+	mkdir -p "$pkgdir"/usr/share/avida
+	cp -R avida-core/support/* "$pkgdir"/usr/share/avida
+}
+
+sha512sums="09332469e4aab96c0775f3d8e5a8e9c2544468bd6b461e5a30edac2d6fb0049fbb4db4860e54d94a2f010830a593377bc5345404ca6d78acba1e968a352f889d  avida-0_git20190813.tar.gz
+e0f8aab74198f07e2edbd0d5083792eaab91a96c4065e1bba6295bb4d6a784665744d812ce1e40393a1da015a9048cbc6c15229dd20da2de9f32692b0d870cfb  apto.tar.gz
+be92b7f3015cccaa64f2065bb552237176b044cbc16fa6dcef368b02aa53c9c3fdcfbb608b4fea2d6d720fe2a01f3362da87bf427fcb95942486c06fddba2892  10-remove-forced-tcmalloc.patch"
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