diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/vala/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/vala/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a71af87f6668
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/vala/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl, yacc, flex, pkgconfig, glib}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "vala-0.9.2";
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://gnome/sources/vala/0.9/vala-0.9.2.tar.bz2";
+    sha256 = "079wsdzb7dlp5kfprvjlhdd0d34jshdn3c7qbngr4qq6g4jf5q92";
+  };
+  buildInputs = [ yacc flex glib pkgconfig ];
+  meta = {
+    description = "Compiler for the GObject type system";
+    homepage = "http://live.gnome.org/Vala";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index c8f7670de14a..23980b0a737c 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -2677,6 +2677,10 @@ let
     inherit fetchurl stdenv perl texinfo;
   };
 
+  vala = import ../development/compilers/vala {
+    inherit stdenv fetchurl yacc flex glib pkgconfig;
+  };
+
   visualcpp = (import ../development/compilers/visual-c++ {
     inherit fetchurl stdenv cabextract;
   });