diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/musl/default.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/musl/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..014591f0b55
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/musl/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name    = "musl-${version}";
+  version = "1.0.0";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url    = "http://www.musl-libc.org/releases/${name}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0chs9h8k4d0iwv8w7n1w02nll3ypwqa2gag6r4czznkj55fz9mqs";
+  };
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+  configurePhase = ''
+    ./configure --enable-shared --enable-static --prefix=$out --syslibdir=$out/lib
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "An efficient, small, quality libc implementation";
+    homepage    = "http://www.musl-libc.org";
+    license     = stdenv.lib.licenses.mit;
+    platforms   = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
+    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.thoughtpolice ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 2e4f7db3a94..046eead410c 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -7170,6 +7170,8 @@ let
 
   multipath_tools = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/multipath-tools { };
 
+  musl = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/musl { };
+
   nettools = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/net-tools { };
 
   neverball = callPackage ../games/neverball {