diff --git a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/ocaml-text/default.nix b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/ocaml-text/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..08136dd2b10
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/ocaml-text/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl, libiconv, ocaml, findlib, ncurses}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "ocaml-text-0.6";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = https://forge.ocamlcore.org/frs/download.php/937/ocaml-text-0.6.tar.gz;
+    sha256 = "0j8gaak0ajnlmn8knvfygqwwzs7awjv5rfn5cbj6qxqbxhjd5m6g";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ocaml findlib libiconv ncurses];
+
+  configurePhase = "iconv_prefix=${libiconv} ocaml setup.ml -configure";
+
+  createFindlibDestdir = true;
+
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "http://ocaml-text.forge.ocamlcore.org/";
+    description = "OCaml-Text is a library for dealing with ``text'', i.e. sequence of unicode characters, in a convenient way. ";
+    license = "BSD";
+    platforms = ocaml.meta.platforms;
+    maintainers = [
+    ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index dac177ecb86..c0c5a179ed4 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -3333,6 +3333,8 @@ let
 
     ocaml_ssl = callPackage ../development/ocaml-modules/ssl { };
 
+    ocaml_text = callPackage ../development/ocaml-modules/ocaml-text { };
+
     ounit = callPackage ../development/ocaml-modules/ounit { };
 
     ulex = callPackage ../development/ocaml-modules/ulex { };