diff --git a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/mparser/default.nix b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/mparser/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6490eeb2f38
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/mparser/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchzip, ocaml, findlib, ocamlbuild }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "ocaml${ocaml.version}-mparser-1.2.1";
+  src = fetchzip {
+    url = http://github.com/cakeplus/mparser/archive/1.2.1.tar.gz;
+    sha256 = "1g1r3p0inmm5xwh9i5mrc4s414b0j8l13a66hpvwhqcpp6qglfh3";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ ocaml findlib ocamlbuild ];
+
+  configurePhase = "ocaml setup.ml -configure";
+  buildPhase = "ocaml setup.ml -build";
+  installPhase = "ocaml setup.ml -install";
+
+  createFindlibDestdir = true;
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "A simple monadic parser combinator OCaml library";
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.lgpl21Plus;
+    homepage = https://github.com/cakeplus/mparser;
+    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.vbgl ];
+    inherit (ocaml.meta) platforms;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/ocaml-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/ocaml-packages.nix
index b980e053020..f7a91767326 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/ocaml-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/ocaml-packages.nix
@@ -281,6 +281,8 @@ let
 
     mlgmpidl =  callPackage ../development/ocaml-modules/mlgmpidl { };
 
+    mparser =  callPackage ../development/ocaml-modules/mparser { };
+
     mtime =  callPackage ../development/ocaml-modules/mtime { };
 
     nocrypto =  callPackage ../development/ocaml-modules/nocrypto {