diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/google-gflags/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/google-gflags/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..3631d4927a38
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/google-gflags/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "google-gflags-2.0";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "https://gflags.googlecode.com/files/gflags-2.0.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1mypfahsfy0piavhf7il2jfs1gq7jp6yarl9sq5hhypj34s5sjnf";
+  };
+
+  doCheck = true;
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "A C++ library that implements commandline flags processing";
+    longDescription = ''
+      The gflags package contains a C++ library that implements commandline flags processing.
+      As such it's a replacement for getopt().
+      It was owned by Google. google-gflags project has been renamed to gflags and maintained by new community.
+    '';
+    homepage = https://code.google.com/p/gflags/;
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.bsd3;
+
+    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.linquize ];
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.all;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 8d657ed4435e..890432d03904 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -4295,6 +4295,8 @@ let
 
   goocanvas = callPackage ../development/libraries/goocanvas { };
 
+  google-gflags = callPackage ../development/libraries/google-gflags { };
+
   gperftools = callPackage ../development/libraries/gperftools { };
 
   gst_all_1 = recurseIntoAttrs(callPackage ../development/libraries/gstreamer { });