diff --git a/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv b/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv
index 1144bc723254..df403296ccd2 100644
--- a/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv
+++ b/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ ltermbox,
 lua-cmsgpack,
 lua_cliargs,
 lua-term,
+luaevent,
 luaffi,http://luarocks.org/dev,
 luuid,
 penlight,
diff --git a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
index b7224aa334db..494a0e34a386 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
@@ -326,6 +326,26 @@ lua-term = buildLuarocksPackage {
     };
   };
 };
+luaevent = buildLuarocksPackage {
+  pname = "luaevent";
+  version = "0.4.6-1";
+
+  src =  fetchurl {
+      url    = https://luarocks.org/luaevent-0.4.6-1.src.rock;
+      sha256 = "0chq09nawiz00lxd6pkdqcb8v426gdifjw6js3ql0lx5vqdkb6dz";
+   };
+  disabled = ( luaOlder "5.1");
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [lua  ];
+  buildType="builtin";
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "https://github.com/harningt/luaevent";
+    description="libevent binding for Lua";
+    license = {
+      fullName = "MIT";
+    };
+  };
+};
 luaffi = buildLuarocksPackage {
   pname = "luaffi";
   version = "scm-1";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/overrides.nix b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/overrides.nix
index 1fcc49bf5468..4d2178906c72 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/overrides.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/overrides.nix
@@ -45,6 +45,17 @@ with super;
   lrexlib-gnu = super.lrexlib-gnu.override({
     buildInputs = [ pkgs.gnulib ];
   });
+  luaevent = super.luaevent.override({
+    buildInputs = with pkgs; [ libevent.dev libevent ];
+    propagatedBuildInputs = [ luasocket ];
+    extraConfig = ''
+      variables={
+        EVENT_INCDIR="${pkgs.libevent.dev}/include";
+        EVENT_LIBDIR="${pkgs.libevent}/lib";
+      }
+    '';
+    disabled= luaOlder "5.1" || luaAtLeast "5.4" || isLuaJIT;
+  });
   luv = super.luv.overrideAttrs(oa: {
     propagatedBuildInputs = oa.propagatedBuildInputs ++ [ pkgs.libuv ];
   });
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/lua-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/lua-packages.nix
index 7a1738b0f3ee..347393511e6a 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/lua-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/lua-packages.nix
@@ -295,37 +295,6 @@ with self; {
     };
   };
 
-  luaevent = buildLuaPackage rec {
-    version = "0.4.4";
-    name = "luaevent-${version}";
-
-    src = fetchFromGitHub {
-      owner = "harningt";
-      repo = "luaevent";
-      rev = "v${version}";
-      sha256 = "1krzxr0jkv3gmhpckp02byhdd9s5dd0hpyqc8irc8i79dd8x0p53";
-    };
-
-    preBuild = ''
-      makeFlagsArray=(
-        INSTALL_DIR_LUA="$out/share/lua/${lua.luaversion}"
-        INSTALL_DIR_BIN="$out/lib/lua/${lua.luaversion}"
-        LUA_INC_DIR="${lua}/include"
-      );
-    '';
-
-    buildInputs = [ libevent ];
-
-    propagatedBuildInputs = [ luasocket ];
-
-    meta = with stdenv.lib; {
-      homepage = http://luaforge.net/projects/luaevent/;
-      description = "Binding of libevent to Lua";
-      license = licenses.mit;
-      maintainers = with maintainers; [ koral ];
-    };
-  };
-
   luaexpat = buildLuaPackage rec {
     version = "1.3.0";
     name = "expat-${version}";