diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libbacktrace/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libbacktrace/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7dc090a0f704
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libbacktrace/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+{ stdenv, callPackage, fetchFromGitHub, enableStatic ? false, enableShared ? true }:
+let
+  yesno = b: if b then "yes" else "no";
+in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  pname = "libbacktrace";
+  version = "2018-06-05";
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "ianlancetaylor";
+    repo = pname;
+    rev = "5a99ff7fed66b8ea8f09c9805c138524a7035ece";
+    sha256 = "0mb81x76k335iz3h5nqxsj4z3cz2a13i33bkhpk6iffrjz9i4dhz";
+  };
+  configureFlags = [
+    "--enable-static=${yesno enableStatic}"
+    "--enable-shared=${yesno enableShared}"
+  ];
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "A C library that may be linked into a C/C++ program to produce symbolic backtraces";
+    homepage = https://github.com/ianlancetaylor/libbacktrace;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ twey ];
+    license = with licenses; [ bsd3 ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 8dcdd527d144..2a2fe81c5ef0 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -12658,6 +12658,8 @@ in
 
   libb2 = callPackage ../development/libraries/libb2 { };
 
+  libbacktrace = callPackage ../development/libraries/libbacktrace { };
+
   libbap = callPackage ../development/libraries/libbap {
     inherit (ocaml-ng.ocamlPackages_4_06) bap ocaml findlib ctypes;
   };