diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/liblaxjson/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/liblaxjson/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..cafd6a66aa0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/liblaxjson/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, cmake }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  version = "1.0.5";
+  name = "liblaxjson-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "andrewrk";
+    repo = "liblaxjson";
+    rev = "${version}";
+    sha256 = "01iqbpbhnqfifhv82m6hi8190w5sdim4qyrkss7z1zyv3gpchc5s";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ cmake ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Library for parsing JSON config files";
+    homepage = https://github.com/andrewrk/liblaxjson;
+    license = licenses.mit;
+    platforms = platforms.unix;
+    maintainers = [ maintainers.andrewrk ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index b5eb6ce270e..552694be44c 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -6794,6 +6794,8 @@ let
 
   libLAS = callPackage ../development/libraries/libLAS { };
 
+  liblaxjson = callPackage ../development/libraries/liblaxjson { };
+
   liblo = callPackage ../development/libraries/liblo { };
 
   liblrdf = librdf;