diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/gdcm/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/gdcm/default.nix
index c2121f31f1d..2d7e26b9e1a 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/gdcm/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/gdcm/default.nix
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl, cmake, vtk }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  version = "2.4.6";
+  version = "2.6.4";
   name = "gdcm-${version}";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "mirror://sourceforge/gdcm/${name}.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "0rgqgkjyqgld0hpa311z8cddp42v9ihzidyanwyxqpv3jmcrlsfk";
+    sha256 = "14bysjdldq7xb9k1ayskxijm08dy2n45v9bg379dqrcz1q5xq5mi";
   };
 
   dontUseCmakeBuildDir = true;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/pcl/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/pcl/default.nix
index b38f1e5711a..42a8d00eec0 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/pcl/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/pcl/default.nix
@@ -1,14 +1,15 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchzip, cmake, qhull, flann, boost, vtk, eigen, pkgconfig, qt4
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, cmake, qhull, flann, boost, vtk, eigen, pkgconfig, qt4
 , libusb1, libpcap, libXt, libpng, Cocoa, AGL, cf-private
 }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "pcl-1.7.2";
+  name = "pcl-1.8.0";
 
-  src = fetchzip {
-    name = name + "-src";
-    url = "https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/archive/${name}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "0sm19p6wcls2d9l0vi5fgwqp7l372nh3g7bdin42w31zr8dmz8h8";
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "PointCloudLibrary";
+    repo = "pcl";
+    rev = name;
+    sha256 = "1pki4y7mc2dryxc8wa7rs4hg74qab80rpy90jnw3j8fzf09kxcll";
   };
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/vtk/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/vtk/default.nix
index 59063645232..20e2213e3e7 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/vtk/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/vtk/default.nix
@@ -5,24 +5,25 @@ with stdenv.lib;
 
 let
   os = stdenv.lib.optionalString;
-  majorVersion = "5.10";
-  minorVersion = "1";
+  majorVersion = "7.0";
+  minorVersion = "0";
   version = "${majorVersion}.${minorVersion}";
 in
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "vtk-${os (qtLib != null) "qvtk-"}${version}";
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = "${meta.homepage}files/release/${majorVersion}/vtk-${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "1fxxgsa7967gdphkl07lbfr6dcbq9a72z5kynlklxn7hyp0l18pi";
+    url = "${meta.homepage}files/release/${majorVersion}/VTK-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1hrjxkcvs3ap0bdhk90vymz5pgvxmg7q6sz8ab3wsyddbshr1abq";
   };
 
-  # https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1138466
-  postPatch = "sed '/^#define GL_GLEXT_LEGACY/d' -i ./Rendering/vtkOpenGL.h";
-
   buildInputs = [ cmake mesa libX11 xproto libXt ]
     ++ optional (qtLib != null) qtLib;
 
+  preBuild = ''
+    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$(pwd)/lib";
+  '';
+
   # Shared libraries don't work, because of rpath troubles with the current
   # nixpkgs camke approach. It wants to call a binary at build time, just
   # built and requiring one of the shared objects.