diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/zziplib/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/zziplib/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..744285441e13
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/zziplib/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+{ fetchurl, stdenv, perl, python, zip, xmlto, zlib }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "zziplib-0.13.56";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/zziplib/${name}.tar.bz2";
+    sha256 = "0q7yvqzsmp717bh38zhavw3sh27ms6rc84nrqnnnfwmcq6a32sq5";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ perl python zip xmlto zlib ];
+
+  doCheck = true;
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Zziplib, a library to extract data from files archived in a zip file";
+
+    longDescription = ''
+      The zziplib library is intentionally lightweight, it offers the ability
+      to easily extract data from files archived in a single zip
+      file.  Applications can bundle files into a single zip archive and
+      access them.  The implementation is based only on the (free) subset of
+      compression with the zlib algorithm which is actually used by the
+      zip/unzip tools.
+    '';
+
+    licenses = [ "LGPLv2+" "MPLv1.1" ];
+
+    homepage = http://zziplib.sourceforge.net/;
+
+    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.ludo ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 19fea7ec2f96..983210f73e4a 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -4231,6 +4231,10 @@ let
     inherit stdenv fetchurl;
   };
 
+  zziplib = import ../development/libraries/zziplib {
+    inherit fetchurl stdenv perl python zip xmlto zlib;
+  };
+
 
   ### DEVELOPMENT / PERL MODULES