diff --git a/pkgs/applications/display-managers/ly/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/display-managers/ly/default.nix
index 9376dc476dec..41ecfd40f4b5 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/display-managers/ly/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/display-managers/ly/default.nix
@@ -1,24 +1,22 @@
-{ stdenv, lib, fetchFromGitHub, git, linux-pam, libxcb }:
+{ stdenv, lib, fetchFromGitHub, linux-pam, libxcb, makeBinaryWrapper, zig_0_12
+, callPackage }:
 
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
   pname = "ly";
-  version = "0.6.0";
+  version = "1.0.2";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "fairyglade";
     repo = "ly";
-    rev = "v${version}";
-    hash = "sha256-78XD6DK9aQi8hITWJWnFZ3U9zWTcuw3vtRiU3Lhu7O4=";
-    fetchSubmodules = true;
+    rev = "v1.0.2";
+    hash = "sha256-VUtNEL7Te/ba+wvL0SsUHlyv2NPmkYKs76TnW8r3ysw=";
   };
 
-  hardeningDisable = [ "all" ];
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ git ];
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ makeBinaryWrapper zig_0_12.hook ];
   buildInputs = [ libxcb linux-pam ];
 
-  installPhase = ''
-    mkdir -p $out/bin
-    cp bin/ly $out/bin
+  postPatch = ''
+    ln -s ${callPackage ./deps.nix { }} $ZIG_GLOBAL_CACHE_DIR/p
   '';
 
   meta = with lib; {
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/display-managers/ly/deps.nix b/pkgs/applications/display-managers/ly/deps.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..0269a8e8190a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/display-managers/ly/deps.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,112 @@
+# generated by zon2nix (https://github.com/Cloudef/zig2nix)
+
+{
+  lib,
+  linkFarm,
+  fetchurl,
+  fetchgit,
+  runCommandLocal,
+  zig,
+  name ? "zig-packages",
+}:
+
+with lib;
+
+let
+  unpackZigArtifact =
+    { name, artifact }:
+    runCommandLocal name { nativeBuildInputs = [ zig ]; } ''
+      hash="$(zig fetch --global-cache-dir "$TMPDIR" ${artifact})"
+      mv "$TMPDIR/p/$hash" "$out"
+      chmod 755 "$out"
+    '';
+
+  fetchZig =
+    {
+      name,
+      url,
+      hash,
+    }:
+    let
+      artifact = fetchurl { inherit url hash; };
+    in
+    unpackZigArtifact { inherit name artifact; };
+
+  fetchGitZig =
+    {
+      name,
+      url,
+      hash,
+    }:
+    let
+      parts = splitString "#" url;
+      base = elemAt parts 0;
+      rev = elemAt parts 1;
+    in
+    fetchgit {
+      inherit name rev hash;
+      url = base;
+      deepClone = false;
+    };
+
+  fetchZigArtifact =
+    {
+      name,
+      url,
+      hash,
+    }:
+    let
+      parts = splitString "://" url;
+      proto = elemAt parts 0;
+      path = elemAt parts 1;
+      fetcher = {
+        "git+http" = fetchGitZig {
+          inherit name hash;
+          url = "http://${path}";
+        };
+        "git+https" = fetchGitZig {
+          inherit name hash;
+          url = "https://${path}";
+        };
+        http = fetchZig {
+          inherit name hash;
+          url = "http://${path}";
+        };
+        https = fetchZig {
+          inherit name hash;
+          url = "https://${path}";
+        };
+        file = unpackZigArtifact {
+          inherit name;
+          artifact = /. + path;
+        };
+      };
+    in
+    fetcher.${proto};
+in
+linkFarm name [
+  {
+    name = "122014e73fd712190e109950837b97f6143f02d7e2b6986e1db70b6f4aadb5ba6a0d";
+    path = fetchZigArtifact {
+      name = "clap";
+      url = "https://github.com/Hejsil/zig-clap/archive/8c98e6404b22aafc0184e999d8f068b81cc22fa1.tar.gz";
+      hash = "sha256-3P9LyIlq4eNMOe+/jdVJgECfzveSUuRzTf9yhT4t8Zo=";
+    };
+  }
+  {
+    name = "12209b971367b4066d40ecad4728e6fdffc4cc4f19356d424c2de57f5b69ac7a619a";
+    path = fetchZigArtifact {
+      name = "zigini";
+      url = "https://github.com/Kawaii-Ash/zigini/archive/0bba97a12582928e097f4074cc746c43351ba4c8.tar.gz";
+      hash = "sha256-OdaJ5tqmk2MPwaAbpK4HRD/CcQCN+Cjj8U63BqUcFMs=";
+    };
+  }
+  {
+    name = "1220b0979ea9891fa4aeb85748fc42bc4b24039d9c99a4d65d893fb1c83e921efad8";
+    path = fetchZigArtifact {
+      name = "ini";
+      url = "https://github.com/ziglibs/ini/archive/e18d36665905c1e7ba0c1ce3e8780076b33e3002.tar.gz";
+      hash = "sha256-RQ6OPJBqqH7PCL+xiI58JT7vnIo6zbwpLWn+byZO5iM=";
+    };
+  }
+]