diff --git a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/frontc/default.nix b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/frontc/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ecf1ddc8fbae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/frontc/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+{lib, buildOcaml, fetchurl}:
+
+buildOcaml rec {
+  name = "FrontC";
+  version = "3.4";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://www.irit.fr/recherches/ARCHI/MARCH/frontc/Frontc-${version}.tgz";
+    sha256 = "16dz153s92dgbw1rrfwbhscy73did87kfmjwyh3qpvs748h1sc4g";
+  };
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = https://www.irit.fr/recherches/ARCHI/MARCH/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=61;
+    description = "C Parsing Library";
+    license = licenses.lgpl21;
+    maintainers = [ maintainers.maurer ];
+  };
+
+  meta_file = fetchurl {
+    url = https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ocaml/opam-repository/0f0e610f6499bdf0151e4170411b4f05e4d076d4/packages/FrontC/FrontC.3.4/files/META;
+    sha256 = "1flhvwr01crn7d094kby0418s1m4198np85ymjp3b4maz0n7m2mx";
+  };
+
+  opam_patch = fetchurl {
+    url = https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ocaml/opam-repository/0f0e610f6499bdf0151e4170411b4f05e4d076d4/packages/FrontC/FrontC.3.4/files/opam.patch;
+    sha256 = "0xf83ixx0mf3mznwpwp2mjflii0njdzikhhfxpnms7vhnnmlfzy5";
+  };
+
+  patches = [ opam_patch ];
+  patchFlags = "-p4";
+
+  makeFlags = "PREFIX=$(out) OCAML_SITE=$(OCAMLFIND_DESTDIR)";
+
+  postInstall = "cp ${meta_file} $OCAMLFIND_DESTDIR/FrontC/META";
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 46356f88fa79..1261c3dce732 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -5322,6 +5322,8 @@ in
 
     ocaml_expat = callPackage ../development/ocaml-modules/expat { };
 
+    frontc = callPackage ../development/ocaml-modules/frontc { };
+
     ocamlfuse = callPackage ../development/ocaml-modules/ocamlfuse { };
 
     ocamlgraph = callPackage ../development/ocaml-modules/ocamlgraph { };