diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/ijs/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/ijs/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5350630dac40
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/ijs/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, autoreconfHook }:
+
+let version = "9.15";
+in
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "ijs-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://downloads.ghostscript.com/public/ghostscript-${version}.tar.bz2";
+    sha256 = "0p1isp6ssfay141klirn7n9s8b546vcz6paksfmksbwy0ljsypg6";
+  };
+
+  prePatch = "cd ijs";
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ autoreconfHook ];
+
+  configureFlags = [ "--disable-static" "--enable-shared" ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = https://www.openprinting.org/download/ijs/;
+    description = "Raster printer driver architecture";
+
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+
+    platforms = platforms.all;
+    maintainers = [ maintainers.abbradar ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index fdb6e76ef534..e02f1e9ec095 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -5532,6 +5532,8 @@ let
 
   imlib2 = callPackage ../development/libraries/imlib2 { };
 
+  ijs = callPackage ../development/libraries/ijs { };
+
   incrtcl = callPackage ../development/libraries/incrtcl { };
 
   indilib = callPackage ../development/libraries/indilib { };