diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6c202521b1a8a0044be7b8bd07785cff18fdac85
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+# these are the file types that will be ignored by git
+*.a
+*.mod
+*.o
+*.so
+*.dylib