diff --git a/pkgs/tools/filesystems/squashfuse/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/filesystems/squashfuse/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c3978e7a55cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/filesystems/squashfuse/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, fetchpatch, automake, autoreconfHook, libtool, fuse,
+  pkgconfig, pcre, lz4, xz, zlib, lzo, zstd }:
+
+with stdenv.lib;
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+
+  pname = "squashfuse";
+  version = "0.1.101";
+  rev = "371e4bee9caa254d842913df9bdbcc795c5b342c";
+  short_rev = "${builtins.substring 0 7 rev}";
+  name = "${pname}-${version}-${short_rev}";
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "FUSE filesystem to mount squashfs archives";
+    homepage = https://github.com/vasi/squashfuse;
+    maintainers = [ maintainers.genesis ];
+    platforms = platforms.linux;
+    license = "BSD-2-Clause";
+  };
+
+  # platforms.darwin should be supported : see PLATFORMS file in src.
+  # we could use a nix fuseProvider, and let the derivation choose the OS
+  # specific implementation.
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "vasi";
+    repo  = "${pname}";
+    rev = "${rev}";
+    sha256 = "0i9p8r1c128hzy0cwmga1x7q8zk7kw68mh8li5ipfz8zba60d7vz";
+  };
+
+  patches = [
+	(fetchpatch {
+	  url = "https://github.com/vasi/squashfuse/commit/0c44cb2abe402d6e352dd47ac8b7e7495c7c2a6f.patch";
+	  sha256 = "0z53p7pi3ap05n0bxhmka4sz12cw2cjjvc7xn9jppbyynfzx32m0";
+	})
+  ];
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ autoreconfHook libtool pkgconfig ];
+  buildInputs = [ lz4 xz zlib lzo zstd fuse ];
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 35ebbf4be77b..24cbf6cedb2b 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -4827,6 +4827,8 @@ with pkgs;
 
   squashfsTools = callPackage ../tools/filesystems/squashfs { };
 
+  squashfuse = callPackage ../tools/filesystems/squashfuse { };
+
   srcml = callPackage ../applications/version-management/srcml { };
 
   sshfs-fuse = callPackage ../tools/filesystems/sshfs-fuse { };