diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/zlib/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/zlib/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8159836930a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/zlib/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl, ghc, zlib}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation (rec {
+
+  pname = "zlib";
+  version = "0.4.0.2";
+
+  name = "${pname}-Haskell-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/${pname}/${version}/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "e6e9e51ca5b7f1685eb031f826f7865acc10cc2c8d0dfad975e0e81fd17f17ed";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ghc];
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [zlib];
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Compression and decompression in the gzip and zlib formats";
+  };
+
+  extraLibDirs = "${zlib}/lib";
+
+  configurePhase = ''
+    sed -i '/extra-libraries/a\ \ \ \ extra-lib-dirs: ${extraLibDirs}' ${pname}.cabal
+    ghc --make Setup.hs
+    ./Setup configure --prefix="$out"
+  '';
+
+  buildPhase = ''
+    ./Setup build
+  '';
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    ./Setup copy
+    ./Setup register --gen-script
+    mkdir $out/nix-support
+    sed -i 's/|.*\(ghc-pkg update\)/| \1/' register.sh
+    cp register.sh $out/nix-support/register-ghclib.sh
+    sed -i 's/\(ghc-pkg update\)/\1 --user/' register.sh
+    mkdir $out/bin
+    cp register.sh $out/bin/register-ghclib-${name}.sh
+  '';
+
+})
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 9b06c914be4..2662e69ae63 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -2634,6 +2634,10 @@ rec {
     xineramaSupport = true;
   };
 
+  zlibHaskell = import ../development/libraries/haskell/zlib {
+    inherit stdenv fetchurl zlib;
+    ghc = ghc68;
+  };
 
   ### DEVELOPMENT / PERL MODULES