diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/gecode/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/gecode/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..64496a2ab11e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/gecode/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, perl }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "gecode-${version}";
+  version = "4.3.0";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://www.gecode.org/download/${name}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "18a1nd6sxqqh05hd9zwcgq9qhqrr6hi0nbzpwpay1flkv5gvg2d7";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ perl ];
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 49fc5f5658f3..edea89c4ce08 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -4768,6 +4768,8 @@ let
 
   gdbm = callPackage ../development/libraries/gdbm { };
 
+  gecode = callPackage ../development/libraries/gecode { };
+
   gegl = callPackage ../development/libraries/gegl {
     #  avocodec avformat librsvg
   };