diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/liborc/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/liborc/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2b298c97379c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/liborc/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "liborc-${version}";
+  version = "0.4.16";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://http.debian.net/debian/pool/main/o/orc/orc_${version}.orig.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1asq58gm87ig60ib4cs69hyqhnsirqkdlidnchhx83halbdlw3kh";
+  };
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/liborc-0.4-0;
+    description = "Orc is a library and set of tools for compiling and executing very simple programs that operate on arrays of data.";
+    license = with licenses; [ bsd2 bsd3 ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index ffe46d990944..7d674339a640 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -8435,6 +8435,8 @@ in
 
   libopus = callPackage ../development/libraries/libopus { };
 
+  liborc = callPackage ../development/libraries/liborc { };
+
   libosinfo = callPackage ../development/libraries/libosinfo {
     inherit (gnome3) libsoup;
   };