diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/lua-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/lua-packages.nix
index 91efa306ce4..929949ab72d 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/lua-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/lua-packages.nix
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 { fetchurl, fetchzip, stdenv, lua, callPackage, unzip, zziplib, pkgconfig, libtool
 , pcre, oniguruma, gnulib, tre, glibc, sqlite, openssl, expat, cairo
 , perl, gtk2, python, glib, gobjectIntrospection, libevent, zlib, autoreconfHook
-, fetchFromGitHub, libmpack
+, fetchFromGitHub, libmpack, which
 }:
 
 let
@@ -270,6 +270,28 @@ let
     };
   };
 
+  luxio = buildLuaPackage rec {
+    name = "luxio-${version}";
+    version = "13";
+    src = fetchurl {
+      url = "https://git.gitano.org.uk/luxio.git/snapshot/luxio-luxio-13.tar.bz2";
+      sha256 = "1hvwslc25q7k82rxk461zr1a2041nxg7sn3sw3w0y5jxf0giz2pz";
+    };
+    buildInputs = [ which pkgconfig ];
+    meta = {
+      platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
+      license = stdenv.lib.licenses.mit;
+      description = "Lightweight UNIX I/O and POSIX binding for Lua";
+    };
+    preBuild = ''
+      makeFlagsArray=(
+        INST_LIBDIR="$out/lib/lua/${lua.luaversion}"
+        INST_LUADIR="$out/share/lua/${lua.luaversion}"
+        LUA_BINDIR="$out/bin"
+        );
+    '';
+  };
+
   luazip = buildLuaPackage rec {
     name = "zip-${version}";
     version = "1.2.3";