diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/parsing/antlr/builder.sh b/pkgs/development/tools/parsing/antlr/builder.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1d9f352c5698
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/parsing/antlr/builder.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+source $stdenv/setup
+
+tar zxvf $src
+cd antlr-*
+cd lib
+
+ensureDir $out/lib/antlr
+ensureDir $out/bin
+
+cp *.jar $out/lib/antlr
+
+classpath=""
+for jar in $out/lib/antlr/*.jar; do
+  classpath="$classpath:$jar"
+done
+
+cat > $out/bin/antlr <<EOF
+#! $SHELL
+
+$jre/bin/java -cp $classpath -Xms200M -Xmx400M org.antlr.Tool \$*
+EOF
+
+chmod u+x $out/bin/antlr
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/parsing/antlr/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/parsing/antlr/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..deb8040256b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/parsing/antlr/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl, jre}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "antlr-3.0b3";
+  builder = ./builder.sh;
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = http://www.antlr.org/download/antlr-3.0b3.tar.gz;
+    md5 = "6a7e70ccece8149b735cc3aaa24241cc";
+  };
+  inherit jre;
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 3b3b970e12bb..525aab297aa4 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -580,6 +580,10 @@ rec {
     m4 = gnum4;
   };
 
+  antlr = (import ../development/tools/parsing/antlr) {
+    inherit fetchurl stdenv jre;
+  };
+
   gcc = useFromStdenv (stdenv ? gcc) stdenv.gcc gcc41;
 
   gcc_static = (import ../development/compilers/gcc-static-3.4) {