diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/sys-perl/default.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/sys-perl/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index e30ce92c61e..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/sys-perl/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv }:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "perl";
-
-  unpackPhase = "true";
-  
-  installPhase =
-    ''
-      mkdir -p $out/bin
-      ln -s /usr/bin/perl $out/bin
-    '';
-
-  setupHook = ./setup-hook.sh;
-
-  libPrefix = "lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10/i686-cygwin";
-
-  passthru.libPrefix = libPrefix;
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/sys-perl/setup-hook.sh b/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/sys-perl/setup-hook.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index 7b03c15ec5a..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/sys-perl/setup-hook.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-addPerlLibPath () {
-    addToSearchPath PERL5LIB $1/@libPrefix@
-}
-
-envHooks+=(addPerlLibPath)
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 8713dab4786..60cffbbf4d9 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -4807,7 +4807,7 @@ let
     fetchurl = fetchurlBoot;
   };
 
-  perl = if system != "i686-cygwin" then perl520 else sysPerl;
+  perl = perl520;
 
   php = php56;
 
@@ -4965,8 +4965,6 @@ let
 
   supercollider_scel = supercollider.override { useSCEL = true; };
 
-  sysPerl = callPackage ../development/interpreters/perl/sys-perl { };
-
   tcl = tcl-8_6;
   tcl-8_5 = callPackage ../development/interpreters/tcl/8.5.nix { };
   tcl-8_6 = callPackage ../development/interpreters/tcl/8.6.nix { };