diff --git a/lib/maintainers.nix b/lib/maintainers.nix
index 263af793d99..6b6b6721b36 100644
--- a/lib/maintainers.nix
+++ b/lib/maintainers.nix
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
   antono = "Antono Vasiljev <self@antono.info>";
   aristid = "Aristid Breitkreuz <aristidb@gmail.com>";
   arobyn = "Alexei Robyn <shados@shados.net>";
+  asppsa = "Alastair Pharo <asppsa@gmail.com>";
   astsmtl = "Alexander Tsamutali <astsmtl@yandex.ru>";
   aszlig = "aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>";
   auntie = "Jonathan Glines <auntieNeo@gmail.com>";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/pure-modules/pure-gsl/default.nix b/pkgs/development/pure-modules/pure-gsl/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..bbad1e380d5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/pure-modules/pure-gsl/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, pure, pkgconfig, gsl }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "pure-gsl-0.12";
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = https://bitbucket.org/purelang/pure-lang/downloads/pure-gsl-0.12.tar.gz;
+    sha256 = "06bdd873d5417d90ca35093056a060b77365123ed24c3ac583cd3922d4c78a75";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ pure gsl ];
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    mkdir -p $out/lib/pure/gsl
+    install gsl.pure gsl$(pkg-config pure --variable DLL) $out/lib/pure
+    install gsl/*.pure $out/lib/pure/gsl
+  '';
+
+  setupHook = ./setup-hook.sh;
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "GNU Scientific Library interface for Pure";
+    homepage = http://puredocs.bitbucket.org/pure-gsl.html;
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
+    maintainers = with stdenv.lib.maintainers; [ asppsa ];
+  };
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pkgs/development/pure-modules/pure-gsl/setup-hook.sh b/pkgs/development/pure-modules/pure-gsl/setup-hook.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..efaa2211ae6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/pure-modules/pure-gsl/setup-hook.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+addToSearchPath PURE_INCLUDE $1/lib/pure
+addToSearchPath PURE_LIBRARY $1/lib/pure
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 4f1d391264a..fa048df8ed5 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -3922,6 +3922,8 @@ let
     llvm = llvm_34 ;
   };
 
+  pure-gsl = callPackage ../development/pure-modules/pure-gsl { };
+
   python = python2;
   python2 = python27;
   python3 = python34;