diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/nim/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/nim/default.nix
index eed702f8512..0cebd40afdb 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/nim/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/nim/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ stdenv, lib, fetchurl, makeWrapper, gcc }:
+{ stdenv, lib, fetchurl, makeWrapper, nodejs, openssl, pcre, readline, sqlite }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "nim-${version}";
@@ -9,24 +9,52 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "0rsibhkc5n548bn9yyb9ycrdgaph5kq84sfxc9gabjs7pqirh6cy";
   };
 
-  buildInputs  = [ makeWrapper ];
+  doCheck = true;
 
-  buildPhase   = "sh build.sh";
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
-  installPhase =
-    ''
-      install -Dt "$out/bin" bin/nim
-      substituteInPlace install.sh --replace '$1/nim' "$out"
-      sh install.sh $out
-      wrapProgram $out/bin/nim \
-        --suffix PATH : ${lib.makeBinPath [ gcc ]}
-    '';
+  NIX_LDFLAGS = [
+    "-lcrypto"
+    "-lpcre"
+    "-lreadline"
+    "-lsqlite3"
+  ];
 
-  meta = with stdenv.lib;
-    { description = "Statically typed, imperative programming language";
-      homepage = http://nim-lang.org/;
-      license = licenses.mit;
-      maintainers = with maintainers; [ ehmry peterhoeg ];
-      platforms = platforms.linux ++ platforms.darwin; # arbitrary
-    };
+  # 1. nodejs is only needed for tests
+  # 2. we could create a separate derivation for the "written in c" version of nim
+  #    used for bootstrapping, but koch insists on moving the nim compiler around
+  #    as part of building it, so it cannot be read-only
+
+  buildInputs  = [
+    makeWrapper nodejs
+    openssl pcre readline sqlite
+  ];
+
+  buildPhase   = ''
+    sh build.sh
+    ./bin/nim c koch
+    ./koch boot  -d:release \
+                 -d:useGnuReadline \
+                 ${lib.optionals (stdenv.isDarwin || stdenv.isLinux) "-d:nativeStacktrace"}
+    ./koch tools -d:release
+  '';
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    install -Dt $out/bin bin/* koch
+    ./koch install $out
+    mv $out/nim/bin/* $out/bin/ && rmdir $out/nim/bin
+    mv $out/nim/*     $out/     && rmdir $out/nim
+    wrapProgram $out/bin/nim \
+      --suffix PATH : ${lib.makeBinPath [ stdenv.cc ]}
+  '';
+
+  checkPhase = "./koch tests";
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Statically typed, imperative programming language";
+    homepage = http://nim-lang.org/;
+    license = licenses.mit;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ ehmry peterhoeg ];
+    platforms = with platforms; linux ++ darwin; # arbitrary
+  };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/nimble/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/nimble/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index d3248d6219e..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/nimble/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, nim, openssl }:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "nimble-${version}";
-
-  version = "0.7.10";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "nim-lang";
-    repo = "nimble";
-    rev = "v${version}";
-    sha256 = "1bcv8chir73nn6x7q8n3sw2scf3m0x2w9gkkzx162ryivza1nm1r";
-  };
-
-  buildInputs = [ nim openssl ];
-
-  patchPhase = ''
-    substituteInPlace src/nimble.nim.cfg --replace "./vendor/nim" "${nim}/share"
-    echo "--clib:crypto" >> src/nimble.nim.cfg
-  '';
-
-  buildPhase = ''
-    cd src && nim c -d:release nimble
-  '';
-
-  installPhase = ''
-    mkdir -p $out/bin
-    cp nimble $out/bin
-  '';
-
-  dontStrip = true;
-
-  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
-    description = "Package manager for the Nim programming language";
-    homepage = https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble;
-    license = licenses.bsd2;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ kamilchm ];
-    platforms = platforms.linux ++ platforms.darwin;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index e0f8be8f8d2..ef350dfef0c 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -5279,7 +5279,6 @@ in
   mozart = mozart-binary;
 
   nim = callPackage ../development/compilers/nim { };
-  nimble = callPackage ../development/tools/nimble { };
   nrpl = callPackage ../development/tools/nrpl { };
 
   neko = callPackage ../development/compilers/neko { };