diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/documentation/hs2hs/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/documentation/hs2hs/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..cfa9e3b56f69
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/documentation/hs2hs/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+#TODO write a function (abstraction)
+args: with args;
+args.stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "hsc2hs-darcs";
+
+  src = bleedingEdgeRepos.sourceByName "hsc2hs";
+
+  phases = "unpackPhase buildPhase";
+
+  buildPhase  = ''
+    ghc --make Setup.*hs -o setup
+    ensureDir \out
+     nix_ghc_pkg_tool join local-pkg-db
+    ./setup configure --prefix=$out --package-db=local-pkg-db
+    ./setup build
+    ./setup install
+  '';
+
+  buildInputs = (with args; [ghc] ++ libs);
+
+  meta = {
+      description = "automate some parts of the process of writing Haskell bindings to C code";
+      homepage = http://www.flapjax-lang.org/;
+      license = "BSD3";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/misc/bleeding-edge-fetch-info/hsc2hs.nix b/pkgs/misc/bleeding-edge-fetch-info/hsc2hs.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8d0bdea1a9a1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/misc/bleeding-edge-fetch-info/hsc2hs.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+ args: with args; fetchurl { 
+  url = http://mawercer.de/~nix/repos/hsc2hs.tar.gz;
+  sha256 = "3179eba85e56f30250793dbb612ffb8ad869e37297a185c2e0fb29134afb73af";}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 5194b9efe080..2f10b55d867b 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -1942,6 +1942,12 @@ let pkgs = rec {
     inherit cabal;
   };
 
+  hsc2hs = import ../development/tools/documentation/hs2hs {
+    inherit bleedingEdgeRepos stdenv;
+    ghc = ghcsAndLibs.ghc68.ghc;
+    libs = with (ghc68extraLibs ghcsAndLibs.ghc68 // ghcsAndLibs.ghc68.core_libs); [ base directory process cabal_darcs ];
+  };
+
   guileLint = import ../development/tools/guile/guile-lint {
     inherit fetchurl stdenv guile;
   };