diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/jansson/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/jansson/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a1f9983abe2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/jansson/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "jansson-2.4";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://www.digip.org/jansson/releases/${name}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1fcbd1ac3d8b610644acf86a5731d760bb228c9acbace20a2ad0f23baec79b41";
+  };
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "http://www.digip.org/jansson/";
+    description = "Jansson is a C library for encoding, decoding and manipulating JSON data.";
+    license = "MIT";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 8e4bf193a95..0b7defa9a22 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -4111,6 +4111,8 @@ let
 
   jama = callPackage ../development/libraries/jama { };
 
+  jansson = callPackage ../development/libraries/jansson { };
+
   jbig2dec = callPackage ../development/libraries/jbig2dec { };
 
   jetty_gwt = callPackage ../development/libraries/java/jetty-gwt { };