diff --git a/pkgs/tools/compression/bsc/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/compression/bsc/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..be512e2ae689
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/compression/bsc/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl } :
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "bsc-${version}";
+  version = "3.1.0";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "https://github.com/IlyaGrebnov/libbsc/archive/${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "01yhizaf6qjv1plyrx0fcib264maa5qwvgfvvid9rzlzj9fxjib6";
+  };
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  preInstall = ''
+    makeFlagsArray+=("PREFIX=$out")
+  '';
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "High performance block-sorting data compression library";
+    homepage = http://libbsc.com/;
+    # Later commits changed the licence to Apache2 (no release yet, though)
+    license = with licenses; [ lgpl3Plus ];
+    platforms = platforms.unix;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index f93e2922cacf..793daf719529 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -1100,6 +1100,8 @@ with pkgs;
 
   atool = callPackage ../tools/archivers/atool { };
 
+  bsc = callPackage ../tools/compression/bsc { };
+
   bzip2 = callPackage ../tools/compression/bzip2 { };
 
   cabextract = callPackage ../tools/archivers/cabextract { };