diff --git a/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix b/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
index 1dcf3680334..6c57edb074b 100644
--- a/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
+++ b/maintainers/maintainer-list.nix
@@ -216,6 +216,11 @@
     github = "alunduil";
     name = "Alex Brandt";
   };
+  amar1729 = {
+    email = "amar.paul16@gmail.com";
+    github = "amar1729";
+    name = "Amar Paul";
+  };
   ambrop72 = {
     email = "ambrop7@gmail.com";
     github = "ambrop72";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/argp-standalone/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/argp-standalone/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f14c77f666b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/argp-standalone/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, fetchpatch }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "argp-standalone-1.3";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "https://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/misc/argp-standalone-1.3.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "dec79694da1319acd2238ce95df57f3680fea2482096e483323fddf3d818d8be";
+  };
+
+  patches = [
+    (if stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin then
+    fetchpatch {
+      name = "patch-argp-fmtstream.h";
+      url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/formula-patches/b5f0ad3/argp-standalone/patch-argp-fmtstream.h";
+      sha256 = "5656273f622fdb7ca7cf1f98c0c9529bed461d23718bc2a6a85986e4f8ed1cb8";
+    }
+    else null)
+  ];
+
+  patchFlags = "-p0";
+
+  postInstall = 
+    ''
+      mkdir -p $out/lib $out/include
+      cp libargp.a $out/lib
+      cp argp.h $out/include
+    '';
+
+  doCheck = true;
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = "https://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/misc/";
+    description = "Standalone version of arguments parsing functions from GLIBC";
+    platforms = platforms.darwin;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ amar1729 ];
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl2;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index dfac875b773..ef28e809698 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -9129,6 +9129,8 @@ with pkgs;
   arb = callPackage ../development/libraries/arb {};
   arb-git = callPackage ../development/libraries/arb/git.nix {};
 
+  argp-standalone = callPackage ../development/libraries/argp-standalone {};
+
   armadillo = callPackage ../development/libraries/armadillo {};
 
   arrow-cpp = callPackage ../development/libraries/arrow-cpp {};