diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/glew/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/glew/default.nix
index db36944dcb2..77686c9a7de 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/glew/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/glew/default.nix
@@ -1,23 +1,25 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl, mesa, x11, libXmu, libXi }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "glew-1.7.0";
+  name = "glew-1.9.0";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "mirror://sourceforge/glew/${name}.tgz";
-    sha256 = "02aw6sc4v1434m7awfcxqb0v987i2ykg3fncnp21i9g1n4zsclqn";
+    sha256 = "11xpmsw7m5qn7y8fa2ihhqcislz1bdd83mp99didd5ac84756dlv";
   };
 
   buildInputs = [ mesa x11 libXmu libXi ];
 
-  installPhase = "
-    GLEW_DEST=\$out make install
-    mkdir -pv \$out/share/doc/glew
-    cp -r README.txt LICENSE.txt doc  \$out/share/doc/glew
-  ";
-  
-  meta = { 
-    description = "Cross-platform open-source C/C++ extension loading library";
+  installPhase = ''
+    GLEW_DEST=$out make install
+    mkdir -pv $out/share/doc/glew
+    mkdir -p $out/lib/pkgconfig
+    cp glew*.pc $out/lib/pkgconfig
+    cp -r README.txt LICENSE.txt doc $out/share/doc/glew
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "An OpenGL extension loading library for C(++)";
     homepage = http://glew.sourceforge.net/;
     license = ["BSD" "GLX" "SGI-B" "GPL2"]; # License description copied from gentoo-1.4.0 
   };