diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/uulib/builder.sh b/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/uulib/builder.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1769fe66b8a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/uulib/builder.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+source $stdenv/setup
+
+#manual setup of ghc
+PATH=$ghc/bin:$PATH
+
+#unpack
+tar xzf "$src" &&
+cd uulib-* &&
+
+#configure
+ghc --make Setup.hs -o setup -package Cabal &&
+./setup configure --prefix=$out &&
+
+#make
+./setup build &&
+
+#install
+./setup copy &&
+
+#register package locally (might use wrapper instead of ugly sed)
+echo '[]' > package.conf &&
+./setup register --gen-script &&
+sed "/ghc-pkg/ s|update -|-f package.conf update -|" register.sh > register-local.sh &&
+sh register-local.sh &&
+mv package.conf $out/ &&
+
+#add dependencies
+#dependencies contains a FSO per line
+#for ghc     : prefix each FSO with -package-conf
+#for ghc-pkg : prefix each FSO with -f or --package-conf (note the difference with ghc)
+#both        : append with package.conf
+#
+#example: $(sort FSO1/dependencies FSO2/dependencies | uniq | sed 's|^|FSO/|; s|$|/package.conf|')
+
+#no dependencies
+touch $out/dependencies
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/uulib/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/uulib/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..18371d948b1e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/uulib/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl, ghc}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "uulib-0.9.2";
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = http://abaris.zoo.cs.uu.nl:8080/wiki/pub/HUT/Download/uulib-0.9.2-src.tar.gz;
+    md5 = "0cc9acc6a268e2bc5c8a954e67406e2d";
+  };
+  builder = ./builder.sh;
+  inherit ghc;
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/system/all-packages-generic.nix b/pkgs/system/all-packages-generic.nix
index 0992aa890772..1b8f0b7c5d01 100644
--- a/pkgs/system/all-packages-generic.nix
+++ b/pkgs/system/all-packages-generic.nix
@@ -1248,6 +1248,12 @@ rec {
     inherit (xlibs) libXtst;
   };
 
+  ### DEVELOPMENT / LIBRARIES / HASKELL
+
+  uulib = import ../development/libraries/haskell/uulib {
+    inherit stdenv fetchurl ghc;
+  };
+  
   ### DEVELOPMENT / PERL MODULES
 
   perlBerkeleyDB = import ../development/perl-modules/BerkeleyDB {
diff --git a/pkgs/system/populate-cache.nix b/pkgs/system/populate-cache.nix
index 2f67e7bcefdb..b9111e8fed24 100644
--- a/pkgs/system/populate-cache.nix
+++ b/pkgs/system/populate-cache.nix
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ let {
     transformers
 
     ghc
+    uulib
 #    helium
     perl
     python