diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/logic/cvc4/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/science/logic/cvc4/default.nix
index a6e9bc69a12..54a2f022551 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/science/logic/cvc4/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/science/logic/cvc4/default.nix
@@ -1,19 +1,20 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, cln, gmp, swig, pkgconfig
-, readline, libantlr3c, boost, jdk, autoreconfHook
-, python3, antlr3_4
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, cmake, cln, gmp, git, swig, pkgconfig
+, readline, libantlr3c, boost, jdk, python3, antlr3_4
 }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "cvc4";
-  version = "1.6";
+  version = "1.8";
 
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://cvc4.cs.stanford.edu/downloads/builds/src/cvc4-${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "1iw793zsi48q91lxpf8xl8lnvv0jsj4whdad79rakywkm1gbs62w";
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner  = "cvc4";
+    repo   = "cvc4";
+    rev    = version;
+    sha256 = "1rhs4pvzaa1wk00czrczp58b2cxfghpsnq534m0l3snnya2958jp";
   };
 
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ autoreconfHook pkgconfig ];
-  buildInputs = [ gmp cln readline swig libantlr3c antlr3_4 boost jdk python3 ];
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig cmake ];
+  buildInputs = [ gmp git python3.pkgs.toml cln readline swig libantlr3c antlr3_4 boost jdk python3 ];
   configureFlags = [
     "--enable-language-bindings=c,c++,java"
     "--enable-gpl"
@@ -30,6 +31,10 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   preConfigure = ''
     patchShebangs ./src/
   '';
+  cmakeFlags = [
+    "-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Production"
+  ];
+
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;