diff --git a/pkgs/stdenv/nix-linux-static/binutils-static/builder.sh b/pkgs/stdenv/nix-linux-static/binutils-static/builder.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ede1a5d2258
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/stdenv/nix-linux-static/binutils-static/builder.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+. $stdenv/setup
+
+PATH=$gzip:$PATH
+ 
+$curl/bin/curl $src > $tarball
+$tar/bin/tar zxvf $tarball
+mkdir $out
+cp -a binutils-2.15/* $out
diff --git a/pkgs/stdenv/nix-linux-static/binutils-static/default.nix b/pkgs/stdenv/nix-linux-static/binutils-static/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..58607b8da8b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/stdenv/nix-linux-static/binutils-static/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+{stdenv, gnutar, gzip, curl}:
+ 
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  inherit gnutar gzip curl;
+  name = "binutils-static-2.15";
+  builder = ./builder.sh;
+  src = http://losser.st-lab.cs.uu.nl/~armijn/.nix/binutils-2.15-static.tar.gz;
+  tarball = "binutils-2.15-static.tar.gz";
+}