diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/glpk/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/glpk/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..88b5e93dfcf0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/glpk/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+{ fetchurl, stdenv }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "glpk-4.43";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://gnu/glpk/${name}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "3be5f9c2cc355b39570ddb1b86a2ccc40fb52f81588f953f22c2ed29e3278e27";
+  };
+
+  doCheck = true;
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "The GNU Linear Programming Kit";
+
+    longDescription =
+      '' The GNU Linear Programming Kit is intended for solving large
+         scale linear programming problems by means of the revised
+         simplex method.  It is a set of routines written in the ANSI C
+         programming language and organized in the form of a library.
+      '';
+
+    homepage = http://www.gnu.org/software/glpk/;
+    license = "GPLv3+";
+
+    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.bjg ];
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.all;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/lib/maintainers.nix b/pkgs/lib/maintainers.nix
index 678c061eb87e..1efeabc4b54d 100644
--- a/pkgs/lib/maintainers.nix
+++ b/pkgs/lib/maintainers.nix
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
   all = "Nix Committers <nix-commits@cs.uu.nl>";
   andres = "Andres Loeh <andres@cs.uu.nl>";
   astsmtl = "Alexander Tsamutali <astsmtl@yandex.ru>";
+  bjg = "Brian Gough <bjg@gnu.org>";
   eelco = "Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>";
   ludo = "Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>";
   marcweber = "Marc Weber <marco-oweber@gmx.de>";
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index fe971c37fa9b..5778619c2867 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -3832,6 +3832,10 @@ let
         '' # */
         ;
 
+  glpk = import ../development/libraries/glpk {
+    inherit fetchurl stdenv;
+  };
+
   gmime = import ../development/libraries/gmime {
     inherit fetchurl stdenv pkgconfig zlib glib;
   };