diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/cscope/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/cscope/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..adf9ee14255
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/cscope/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+{ fetchurl, stdenv, ncurses, pkgconfig, emacs }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "cscope-15.6";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/cscope/${name}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1jn5r9xhys7dlhxxiwffx9wrxlaf9i9ffh6dw516w79a83pn2r3d";
+  };
+
+  preConfigure = ''
+    sed -i "contrib/xcscope/cscope-indexer" \
+        -"es|^PATH=.*$|PATH=\"$out/bin:$PATH\"|g"
+    sed -i "contrib/xcscope/xcscope.el" \
+        -"es|\"cscope-indexer\"|\"$out/libexec/cscope/cscope-indexer\"|g";
+  '';
+
+  configureFlags = "--with-ncurses=${ncurses}";
+
+  buildInputs = [ ncurses pkgconfig emacs ];
+
+  postInstall = ''
+    # Install Emacs mode.
+    cd "contrib/xcscope"
+
+    ensureDir "$out/libexec/cscope"
+    cp "cscope-indexer" "$out/libexec/cscope"
+
+    ensureDir "$out/share/emacs/site-lisp"
+    emacs --batch --eval '(byte-compile-file "xcscope.el")'
+    cp xcscope.el{,c} "$out/share/emacs/site-lisp"
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Cscope, a developer's tool for browsing source code";
+
+    longDescription = ''
+      Cscope is a developer's tool for browsing source code.  It has
+      an impeccable Unix pedigree, having been originally developed at
+      Bell Labs back in the days of the PDP-11.  Cscope was part of
+      the official AT&T Unix distribution for many years, and has been
+      used to manage projects involving 20 million lines of code!
+    '';
+
+    license = "BSD-style";
+
+    homepage = http://cscope.sourceforge.net/;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index d108dbc56f3..98c0b36c77d 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -2145,6 +2145,10 @@ let pkgs = rec {
     inherit fetchurl stdenv flex bison;
   };
 
+  cscope = import ../development/tools/misc/cscope {
+    inherit fetchurl stdenv ncurses pkgconfig emacs;
+  };
+
   dejagnu = import ../development/tools/misc/dejagnu {
     inherit fetchurl stdenv expect makeWrapper;
   };