diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/parsing/antlr/antlr-2.7.6.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/parsing/antlr/antlr-2.7.6.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..43151ba589a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/parsing/antlr/antlr-2.7.6.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl, jre}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "antlr-2.7.6";
+  builder = ./builder2.sh;
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = http://www.antlr.org/download/antlr-2.7.6.tar.gz;
+    md5 = "17d8bf2e814f0a26631aadbbda8d7324";
+  };
+  inherit jre;
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/parsing/antlr/builder2.sh b/pkgs/development/tools/parsing/antlr/builder2.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..75477393aa2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/parsing/antlr/builder2.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+source $stdenv/setup
+
+tar zxvf $src
+cd antlr-*
+
+ensureDir $out/bin
+ensureDir $out/lib/$name
+
+cp antlr.jar $out/lib/$name
+
+cat > $out/bin/antlr <<EOF
+#! $SHELL
+$jre/bin/java -cp $out/lib/$name/antlr.jar -Xms200M -Xmx400M antlr.Tool \$*
+EOF
+
+chmod u+x $out/bin/antlr