diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/7.8.3.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/7.8.3.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..2e0f5ba07e4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/7.8.3.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, ghc, perl, gmp, ncurses, libiconv }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  version = "7.8.3";
+  name = "ghc-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/${version}/${name}-src.tar.xz";
+    sha256 = "0n5rhwl83yv8qm0zrbaxnyrf8x1i3b6si927518mwfxs96jrdkdh";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ ghc perl gmp ncurses ];
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  buildMK = ''
+    libraries/integer-gmp_CONFIGURE_OPTS += --configure-option=--with-gmp-libraries="${gmp}/lib"
+    libraries/integer-gmp_CONFIGURE_OPTS += --configure-option=--with-gmp-includes="${gmp}/include"
+    libraries/terminfo_CONFIGURE_OPTS += --configure-option=--with-curses-includes="${ncurses}/include"
+    libraries/terminfo_CONFIGURE_OPTS += --configure-option=--with-curses-libraries="${ncurses}/lib"
+    DYNAMIC_BY_DEFAULT = NO
+    ${stdenv.lib.optionalString stdenv.isDarwin ''
+      libraries/base_CONFIGURE_OPTS += --configure-option=--with-iconv-includes="${libiconv}/include"
+      libraries/base_CONFIGURE_OPTS += --configure-option=--with-iconv-libraries="${libiconv}/lib"
+    ''}
+  '';
+
+  preConfigure = ''
+    echo "${buildMK}" > mk/build.mk
+    sed -i -e 's|-isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk||' configure
+  '' + stdenv.lib.optionalString (!stdenv.isDarwin) ''
+    export NIX_LDFLAGS="$NIX_LDFLAGS -rpath $out/lib/ghc-${version}"
+  '' + stdenv.lib.optionalString stdenv.isDarwin ''
+    export NIX_LDFLAGS+=" -no_dtrace_dof"
+  '';
+
+  # required, because otherwise all symbols from HSffi.o are stripped, and
+  # that in turn causes GHCi to abort
+  stripDebugFlags = [ "-S" ] ++ stdenv.lib.optional (!stdenv.isDarwin) "--keep-file-symbols";
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "http://haskell.org/ghc";
+    description = "The Glasgow Haskell Compiler";
+    maintainers = with stdenv.lib.maintainers; [ marcweber andres simons ];
+    inherit (ghc.meta) license platforms;
+  };
+
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/haskell-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/haskell-packages.nix
index cb8c53ad06c..4a3d8437c6f 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/haskell-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/haskell-packages.nix
@@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ rec {
     ghc763 = callPackage ../development/compilers/ghc/7.6.3.nix ({ ghc = compiler.ghc704Binary; } // stdenv.lib.optionalAttrs stdenv.isDarwin {
       libiconv = pkgs.darwin.libiconv;
     });
+    ghc783 = callPackage ../development/compilers/ghc/7.8.3.nix ({ ghc = compiler.ghc742Binary; } // stdenv.lib.optionalAttrs stdenv.isDarwin {
+      libiconv = pkgs.darwin.libiconv;
+    });
     ghc784 = callPackage ../development/compilers/ghc/7.8.4.nix ({ ghc = compiler.ghc742Binary; } // stdenv.lib.optionalAttrs stdenv.isDarwin {
       libiconv = pkgs.darwin.libiconv;
     });