diff --git a/pkgs/tools/compression/bzip2/builder-cygwin.sh b/pkgs/tools/compression/bzip2/builder-cygwin.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0090a18f48b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/compression/bzip2/builder-cygwin.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+source $stdenv/setup
+installFlags="PREFIX=$out"
+
+genericBuild
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/compression/bzip2/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/compression/bzip2/default.nix
index eb537a21b0a..3869bdb06dc 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/compression/bzip2/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/compression/bzip2/default.nix
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
   builder =
     if stdenv.system == "powerpc-darwin" then ./builder-darwin.sh
     else if stdenv.system == "i686-freebsd" then ./builder-freebsd.sh
+    else if stdenv.system == "i686-cygwin" then ./builder-cygwin.sh
     else ./builder.sh;
   src = fetchurl {
     url = http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/tarballs/bzip2-1.0.3.tar.gz;