diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/SDL_image/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/SDL_image/default.nix
index 1ecb2f830826..8f0d59bc2122 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/SDL_image/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/SDL_image/default.nix
@@ -1,41 +1,27 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchhg, SDL, libpng, libjpeg, libtiff, libungif, libXpm, automake,
-  autoconf, pkgconfig }:
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, SDL, libpng, libjpeg, libtiff, libungif, libXpm }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  pname = "SDL_image";
-  version = "1.2.10-20110925";
+  name = "SDL_image-1.2.12";
 
-  name = "${pname}-${version}";
-
-  src = fetchhg {
-    url = http://hg.libsdl.org/SDL_image;
-    tag = "bb611e7cb1e5";
-    sha256 = "0003inlvvmlc2fyrzy01lwhhfb90ppsar2skaa7x6rhmpc71dakz";
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image/release/${name}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "16an9slbb8ci7d89wakkmyfvp7c0cval8xw4hkg0842nhhlp540b";
   };
 
   buildInputs = [SDL libpng libjpeg libtiff libungif libXpm];
 
-  buildNativeInputs = [ automake autoconf pkgconfig ];
-
-  patches = [ ./jpeg-linux.diff ];
-
-  preConfigure = ''
-    ./autogen.sh
-    '';
-
   postInstall = ''
     sed -i -e 's,"SDL.h",<SDL/SDL.h>,' \
-    -e 's,"SDL_version.h",<SDL/SDL_version.h>,' \
-    -e 's,"begin_code.h",<SDL/begin_code.h>,' \
-    -e 's,"close_code.h",<SDL/close_code.h>,' \
+      -e 's,"SDL_version.h",<SDL/SDL_version.h>,' \
+      -e 's,"begin_code.h",<SDL/begin_code.h>,' \
+      -e 's,"close_code.h",<SDL/close_code.h>,' \
       $out/include/SDL/SDL_image.h
-
-    ln -sv $out/include/SDL/SDL_image.h $out/include/
+    ln -sv SDL/SDL_image.h $out/include/SDL_image.h
   '';
 
   meta = {
     description = "SDL image library";
-    homepage = http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image/;
+    homepage = "http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image/";
     platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/SDL_image/jpeg-linux.diff b/pkgs/development/libraries/SDL_image/jpeg-linux.diff
deleted file mode 100644
index fd4cdf7f7a49..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/SDL_image/jpeg-linux.diff
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-# HG changeset patch
-# User Yury G. Kudryashov <urkud@ya.ru>
-# Date 1316994786 -14400
-# Node ID 4c3cd9a4b0602c45c11ec62bcc1f5562ea071d70
-# Parent  bb611e7cb1e58cc37a6773a22a15c74b55e3d267
-Fix compilation on Linux
-
-Submitted upstream, see http://bugzilla.libsdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1179
-
-diff -r bb611e7cb1e5 -r 4c3cd9a4b060 IMG_jpg.c
---- a/IMG_jpg.c	Thu Aug 25 02:24:35 2011 -0400
-+++ b/IMG_jpg.c	Mon Sep 26 03:53:06 2011 +0400
-@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
- 
- #include <jpeglib.h>
- 
--#if JPEG_LIB_VERSION >= 80
-+#ifdef JPEG_TRUE /* MinGW version of jpeg-8.x renamed TRUE to JPEG_TRUE etc. */
- 	typedef JPEG_boolean boolean;
- 	#define TRUE JPEG_TRUE
- 	#define FALSE JPEG_FALSE