diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/analysis/checkstyle/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/analysis/checkstyle/default.nix
index 34b9e53f6e4..690db9a30e1 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/analysis/checkstyle/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/analysis/checkstyle/default.nix
@@ -1,19 +1,24 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl }:
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, makeWrapper, jre }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  version = "8.11";
+  version = "8.12";
   name = "checkstyle-${version}";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/releases/download/checkstyle-${version}/checkstyle-${version}-all.jar";
-    sha256 = "13x4m4rn7rix64baclcm2jqbizkj38njif2ba0ycmvyjm62smfwv";
+    sha256 = "000048flqhkwnjn37bh07wgn6q4m12s3h3p9piqgvxswrjc95x3y";
   };
 
-  phases = [ "installPhase" ];
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ makeWrapper jre ];
+
+  unpackPhase = ":";
 
   installPhase = ''
-    mkdir -p $out/checkstyle
-    cp $src $out/checkstyle/checkstyle-all.jar
+    runHook preInstall
+    install -D $src $out/checkstyle/checkstyle-all.jar
+    makeWrapper ${jre}/bin/java $out/bin/checkstyle \
+      --add-flags "-jar $out/checkstyle/checkstyle-all.jar"
+    runHook postInstall
   '';
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {