diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/pakcs/adjust-buildsystem.patch b/pkgs/development/compilers/pakcs/adjust-buildsystem.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..2d1f92af81d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/pakcs/adjust-buildsystem.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+diff -Naur pakcs-1.11.4-upstream/scripts/pakcs.sh pakcs-1.11.4/scripts/pakcs.sh
+--- pakcs-1.11.4-upstream/scripts/pakcs.sh	2014-10-24 05:06:07.000000000 -0430
++++ pakcs-1.11.4/scripts/pakcs.sh	2015-01-05 16:26:15.697982791 -0430
+@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
+ # use readline wrapper rlwrap if it is installed and we have tty as stdin:
+ USERLWRAP=no
+ if tty -s ; then
+-  RLWRAP=`which rlwrap`
++  RLWRAP=`type -P rlwrap`
+   if [ -x "$RLWRAP" ] ; then
+     USERLWRAP=yes
+   fi
+@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
+ done
+ 
+ if [ $USERLWRAP = yes ] ; then
+-  exec rlwrap -c -f "$PAKCSHOME/tools/rlwrap" "$REPL" ${1+"$@"}
++  exec rlwrap -a -c -f "$PAKCSHOME/tools/rlwrap" "$REPL" ${1+"$@"}
+ else
+   exec "$REPL" ${1+"$@"}
+ fi
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/pakcs/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/pakcs/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..92b916ccb8e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/pakcs/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,156 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, swiProlog, haskellPackages
+, glibcLocales, makeWrapper, rlwrap, tk, which }:
+
+let
+  fname = "pakcs-1.14.0";
+
+  fsrc = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~pakcs/download/${fname}-src.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1651ssh4ql79x8asd7kp4yis2n5rhn3lml4s26y03b0cgbfhs78s";
+  };
+
+  swiPrologLocked = stdenv.lib.overrideDerivation swiProlog (oldAttrs: rec {
+    version = "6.6.6";
+    name = "swi-prolog-${version}";
+    src = fetchurl {
+      url = "http://www.swi-prolog.org/download/stable/src/pl-${version}.tar.gz";
+      sha256 = "0vcrfskm2hyhv30lxr6v261myb815jc3bgmcn1lgsc9g9qkvp04z";
+    };
+  });
+
+in
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+
+  name = fname;
+
+  curryBase = haskellPackages.callPackage (
+    { mkDerivation, base, Cabal, containers, directory, either
+    , filepath, mtl, pretty, stdenv, syb, time
+    }:
+    mkDerivation {
+      pname = "curry-base";
+      version = "0.4.1";
+      src = fsrc;
+      libraryHaskellDepends = [
+        base containers directory either filepath mtl pretty syb time
+      ];
+      testHaskellDepends = [ base Cabal filepath mtl ];
+      homepage = "http://curry-language.org";
+      description = "Functions for manipulating Curry programs";
+      license = "unknown";
+
+      postUnpack = ''
+        mv ${name} ${name}.orig
+        ln -s ${name}.orig/frontend/curry-base ${name}
+      '';
+      doCheck = false;
+    }
+  ) {};
+
+  curryFront = haskellPackages.callPackage (
+    { mkDerivation, base, Cabal, containers, directory
+    , filepath, mtl, network-uri, process, stdenv, syb, transformers
+    }:
+    mkDerivation {
+      pname = "curry-frontend";
+      version = "0.4.1";
+      src = fsrc;
+      isLibrary = true;
+      isExecutable = true;
+      libraryHaskellDepends = [
+        base containers curryBase directory filepath mtl network-uri
+        process syb transformers
+      ];
+      executableHaskellDepends = [
+        base containers curryBase directory filepath mtl network-uri
+        process syb transformers
+      ];
+      testHaskellDepends = [ base Cabal curryBase filepath ];
+      homepage = "http://curry-language.org";
+      description = "Compile the functional logic language Curry to several intermediate formats";
+      license = "unknown";
+
+      postUnpack = ''
+        mv ${name} ${name}.orig
+        ln -s ${name}.orig/frontend/curry-frontend ${name}
+      '';
+      doCheck = false;
+    }
+  ) {};
+
+  src = fsrc;
+
+  buildInputs = [ swiPrologLocked makeWrapper glibcLocales rlwrap tk which ];
+
+  patches = [ ./adjust-buildsystem.patch ];
+
+  configurePhase = ''
+    # Phony HOME.
+    mkdir phony-home
+    export HOME=$(pwd)/phony-home
+
+    # SWI Prolog
+    sed -i 's@SWIPROLOG=@SWIPROLOG='${swiPrologLocked}/bin/swipl'@' scripts/pakcsinitrc.sh
+  '';
+
+  buildPhase = ''
+    # Some comments in files are in UTF-8, so include the locale needed by GHC runtime.
+    export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
+
+    # PAKCS must be build in place due to embedded filesystem references placed by swi.
+
+    # Prepare PAKCSHOME directory.
+    mkdir -p $out/pakcs/bin
+
+    # Set up link to cymake, which has been built already.
+    ln -s ${curryFront}/bin/cymake $out/pakcs/bin/
+    rm -r frontend
+
+    # Prevent embedding the derivation build directory as temp.
+    export TEMP=/tmp
+
+    # Copy to in place build location and run the build.
+    cp -r * $out/pakcs
+    (cd $out/pakcs ; make)
+  '';
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    # Install bin.
+    mkdir -p $out/bin
+    for b in $(ls $out/pakcs/bin) ; do
+      ln -s $out/pakcs/bin/$b $out/bin/ ;
+    done
+
+    # Place emacs lisp files in expected locations.
+    mkdir -p $out/share/emacs/site-lisp/curry-pakcs
+    for e in "$out/pakcs/tools/emacs/"*.el ; do
+      cp $e $out/share/emacs/site-lisp/curry-pakcs/ ;
+    done
+
+    # Wrap for rlwrap and tk support.
+    wrapProgram $out/pakcs/bin/pakcs \
+      --prefix PATH ":" "${rlwrap}/bin" \
+      --prefix PATH ":" "${tk}/bin" \
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~pakcs/";
+    description = "An implementation of the multi-paradigm declarative language Curry";
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.bsd3;
+
+    longDescription = ''
+      PAKCS is an implementation of the multi-paradigm declarative language
+      Curry jointly developed by the Portland State University, the Aachen
+      University of Technology, and the University of Kiel. Although this is
+      not a highly optimized implementation but based on a high-level
+      compilation of Curry programs into Prolog programs, it is not a toy
+      implementation but has been used for a variety of applications (e.g.,
+      graphical programming environments, an object-oriented front-end for
+      Curry, partial evaluators, database applications, HTML programming
+      with dynamic web pages, prototyping embedded systems).
+    '';
+
+    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.gnidorah ];
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 85cbae6e35f..e27f77ad54c 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -3038,6 +3038,8 @@ in
     nix = nixUnstable;
   };
 
+  pakcs = callPackage ../development/compilers/pakcs {};
+
   pal = callPackage ../tools/misc/pal { };
 
   pandoc = haskell.lib.overrideCabal haskellPackages.pandoc (drv: {