diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libco-canonical/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libco-canonical/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..09c27ae7c9cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libco-canonical/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, pkgconfig }:
+
+with stdenv.lib;
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  pname = "libco-canonical";
+  version = "19.1";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "canonical";
+    repo = "libco";
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    sha256 = "03a0fq8f8gc4hjzcf0zsjib4mzag47rxrrg9b5r6bx53vj5rhj78";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
+
+  makeFlags = [ "PREFIX=${placeholder "out"}" ];
+
+  outputs = [ "dev" "out" ];
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "A cooperative multithreading library written in C89";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/canonical/libco";
+    license = licenses.isc;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ wucke13 ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 4a15a8862563..97fd3099fbf6 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -11755,6 +11755,8 @@ in
 
   libclxclient = callPackage ../development/libraries/libclxclient  { };
 
+  libco-canonical = callPackage ../development/libraries/libco-canonical { };
+
   libconfuse = callPackage ../development/libraries/libconfuse { };
 
   libcangjie = callPackage ../development/libraries/libcangjie { };