diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/glib/2.28.x.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/glib/2.28.x.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b250cf2b342
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/glib/2.28.x.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, gettext, perl, libiconv, zlib }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "glib-2.28.1";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://gnome/sources/glib/2.28/${name}.tar.bz2";
+    sha256 = "1b85b998909202c07c2def66613ae6736aac48d7a0a7c98f98967b936fe9de22";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ pkgconfig gettext ]
+                ++ stdenv.lib.optional (!stdenv.isLinux) libiconv;
+  buildNativeInputs = [ perl ];
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ zlib ];
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "GLib, a C library of programming buildings blocks";
+
+    longDescription = ''
+      GLib provides the core application building blocks for libraries
+      and applications written in C.  It provides the core object
+      system used in GNOME, the main loop implementation, and a large
+      set of utility functions for strings and common data structures.
+    '';
+
+    homepage = http://www.gtk.org/;
+
+    license = "LGPLv2+";
+
+    maintainers = [stdenv.lib.maintainers.raskin];
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
+  };
+}