diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/clapack/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/clapack/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a40044ee3a34
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/clapack/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl, cmake}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "clapack-3.2.1";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = http://www.netlib.org/clapack/clapack-3.2.1-CMAKE.tgz;
+    sha256 = "0nnap9q1mv14g57dl3vkvxrdr10k5w7zzyxs6rgxhia8q8mphgqb";
+  };
+
+  buildNativeInputs = [ cmake ];
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    ensureDir $out/include $out/lib
+    cp SRC/*.a F2CLIBS/libf2c/*.a BLAS/SRC/*.a $out/lib
+    cp ../INCLUDE/* $out/include
+  '';
+
+  doCheck = true;
+  checkPhase = "ctest";
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = http://www.netlib.org/clapack/;
+    description = "f2c'ed version of LAPACK";
+    license = "BSD";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index d9a1bae4da48..f53ece7c8c87 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -3674,6 +3674,11 @@ let
     inherit (xlibs) libX11 xf86vidmodeproto libXmu libXxf86vm;
   };
 
+  clapack = import ../development/libraries/clapack {
+    inherit fetchurl cmake;
+    stdenv = stdenv2;
+  };
+
   classads = import ../development/libraries/classads {
     inherit fetchurl stdenv;
   };