diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/vty/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/vty/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ff0f66c26926
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/vty/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl, ghc}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation (rec {
+
+  pname = "vty";
+  version = "3.0.0";
+
+  name = "${pname}-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/${pname}/${version}/${name}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "44ae53d06b8b45c14cd3861e860a38730ed9995ed56b1b3d9aba6641771f1947";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ghc];
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "vty is a *very* simplistic library in the niche of ncurses";
+  };
+
+  configurePhase = ''
+    sed -i 's|^Build-Depends:.*$|&, bytestring, containers|' ${pname}.cabal
+    ghc --make Setup.lhs
+    ./Setup configure -v --prefix="$out"
+  '';
+
+  buildPhase = ''
+    ./Setup build
+  '';
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    ./Setup copy
+    ./Setup register --gen-script
+    mkdir $out/nix-support
+    sed -i 's/|.*\(ghc-pkg update\)/| \1/' register.sh
+    cp register.sh $out/nix-support/register-ghclib.sh
+    sed -i 's/\(ghc-pkg update\)/\1 --user/' register.sh
+    mkdir $out/bin
+    cp register.sh $out/bin/register-ghclib-${name}.sh
+  '';
+
+})
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 58386e4852db..f26557075772 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -2653,6 +2653,11 @@ rec {
     xineramaSupport = true;
   };
 
+  vty = import ../development/libraries/haskell/vty {
+    inherit stdenv fetchurl;
+    ghc = ghc68;
+  };
+
   zlibHaskell = import ../development/libraries/haskell/zlib {
     inherit stdenv fetchurl zlib;
     ghc = ghc68;