diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/ocaml/camlidl/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/ocaml/camlidl/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8f77c0c6fc0d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/ocaml/camlidl/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl, makeWrapper, ocaml, ncurses}:
+let
+  ocaml_version = (builtins.parseDrvName ocaml.name).version;
+  pname = "camlidl";
+  version = "1.05";
+  webpage = "http://caml.inria.fr/pub/old_caml_site/camlidl/";
+in
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+
+  name = "${pname}-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://caml.inria.fr/pub/old_caml_site/distrib/bazar-ocaml/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0483cs66zsxsavcllpw1qqvyhxb39ddil3h72clcd69g7fyxazl5";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ ocaml ];
+
+  preBuild = ''
+    mv config/Makefile.unix config/Makefile
+    substituteInPlace config/Makefile --replace BINDIR=/usr/local/bin BINDIR=$out
+    substituteInPlace config/Makefile --replace OCAMLLIB=/usr/local/lib/ocaml OCAMLLIB=$out/lib/ocaml/${ocaml_version}/site-lib/camlidl
+    ensureDir $out/lib/ocaml/${ocaml_version}/site-lib/camlidl/caml
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "CamlIDL is a stub code generator and COM binding for Objective Caml";
+    homepage = "${webpage}";
+    license = "LGPL";
+    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.roconnor ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 70e872fa863a..dfed66e56089 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -2289,6 +2289,8 @@ let
   mkOcamlPackages = ocaml: self: let callPackage = newScope self; in rec {
     inherit ocaml;
 
+    camlidl = callPackage ../development/tools/ocaml/camlidl { };
+
     camlp5_strict = callPackage ../development/tools/ocaml/camlp5 { };
 
     camlp5_transitional = callPackage ../development/tools/ocaml/camlp5 {