diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/strategoxt/0.18.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/strategoxt/0.18.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..202f32bdaa8d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/strategoxt/0.18.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl, aterm, pkgconfig, getopt, jdk}:
+
+rec {
+
+  inherit aterm;
+
+  
+  sdf = stdenv.mkDerivation ( rec {
+    name = "sdf2-bundle-2.4";
+
+    src = fetchurl {
+      url = "ftp://ftp.strategoxt.org/pub/stratego/StrategoXT/strategoxt-0.17/sdf2-bundle-2.4.tar.gz";
+      sha256 = "2ec83151173378f48a3326e905d11049d094bf9f0c7cff781bc2fce0f3afbc11";
+    };
+
+    buildInputs = [pkgconfig aterm];
+
+    preConfigure = ''
+      substituteInPlace pgen/src/sdf2table.src \
+        --replace getopt ${getopt}/bin/getopt
+    '';
+
+    meta = {
+      homepage = http://www.program-transformation.org/Sdf/SdfBundle;
+      meta = "Tools for the SDF2 Syntax Definition Formalism, including the `pgen' parser generator and `sglr' parser";
+    };
+  } // ( if stdenv.system == "i686-cygwin" then { CFLAGS = "-O2 -Wl,--stack=0x2300000"; } else {} ) ) ;
+
+  
+  strategoxt = stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+    name = "strategoxt-0.18pre19956";
+
+    src = fetchurl {
+      url = "http://hydra.nixos.org/build/66370/download/1/strategoxt-0.18pre19956.tar.gz";
+      sha256 = "abf1347dafbf8d17a388314b9bca81f5bbbdda9268836c74a93c0fdb1a372d7b";
+    };
+
+    buildInputs = [pkgconfig aterm sdf getopt];
+
+    meta = {
+      homepage = http://strategoxt.org/;
+      meta = "A language and toolset for program transformation";
+    };
+  };
+
+
+  javafront = stdenv.mkDerivation (rec {
+    name = "java-front-0.9";
+
+    src = fetchurl {
+      url = "ftp://ftp.strategoxt.org/pub/stratego/java-front/java-front-0.9/java-front-0.9.tar.gz";
+      sha256 = "96f40bf31486d3ced3ecebdcc0067e83ce6acbdbe57e3c847136ac3d7b62cc3c";
+    };
+
+    buildInputs = [pkgconfig aterm sdf strategoxt];
+
+    # !!! The explicit `--with-strategoxt' is necessary; otherwise we
+    # get an XTC registration that refers to "/share/strategoxt/XTC".
+    configureFlags = "--enable-xtc --with-strategoxt=${strategoxt}";
+
+    meta = {
+      homepage = http://strategoxt.org/Stratego/JavaFront;
+      meta = "Tools for generating or transforming Java code";
+    };
+  } // ( if stdenv.system == "i686-cygwin" then { CFLAGS = "-O2"; } else {} ) ) ;
+
+
+  dryad = stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+    name = "dryad-0.2pre1835518355";
+
+    src = fetchurl {
+      url = "http://releases.strategoxt.org/dryad/${name}-zbqfh1rm/dryad-0.2pre18355.tar.gz";
+      sha256 = "2c27b7f82f87ffc27b75969acc365560651275d348b3b5cbb530276d20ae83ab";
+    };
+
+    buildInputs = [jdk pkgconfig aterm sdf strategoxt javafront];
+
+    meta = {
+      homepage = http://strategoxt.org/Stratego/TheDryad;
+      meta = "A collection of tools for developing transformation systems for Java source and bytecode";
+    };
+  };
+
+
+  /*
+  libraries = ... {
+    configureFlags =
+      if stdenv ? isMinGW && stdenv.isMinGW then "--with-std=C99" else "";
+
+    # avoids loads of warnings about too big description fields because of a broken debug format
+    CFLAGS =
+      if stdenv ? isMinGW && stdenv.isMinGW then "-O2" else null;
+  };
+  */
+  
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 43991ac9d8f0..0be171786a65 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -2069,6 +2069,10 @@ let
     inherit fetchurl stdenv pkgconfig aterm getopt jdk;
   };
 
+  strategoPackages018 = import ../development/compilers/strategoxt/0.18.nix {
+    inherit fetchurl stdenv pkgconfig aterm getopt jdk;
+  };
+
   metaBuildEnv = import ../development/compilers/meta-environment/meta-build-env {
     inherit fetchurl stdenv ;
   };