diff --git a/pkgs/libjpeg/libjpeg-build.sh b/pkgs/libjpeg/libjpeg-build.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..9a27a8545c45
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/libjpeg/libjpeg-build.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+#! /bin/sh
+
+. $stdenv/setup || exit 1
+
+tar xvfz $src || exit 1
+cd jpeg-* || exit 1
+./configure --prefix=$out --enable-shared || exit 1
+make || exit 1
+mkdir $out || exit 1
+mkdir $out/bin || exit 1
+mkdir $out/lib || exit 1
+mkdir $out/include || exit 1
+mkdir $out/man || exit 1
+mkdir $out/man/man1 || exit 1
+make install || exit 1
diff --git a/pkgs/libjpeg/libjpeg.fix b/pkgs/libjpeg/libjpeg.fix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..28d7698ef049
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/libjpeg/libjpeg.fix
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+Package(
+  [ ("name", "libjpeg-6b")
+
+  , ("build", Relative("libjpeg/libjpeg-build.sh"))
+
+  , ("src", Call(IncludeFix("fetchurl/fetchurl.fix"),
+      [ ("url", "http://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz")
+      , ("md5", "dbd5f3b47ed13132f04c685d608a7547")
+      ]))
+
+  , ("stdenv", IncludeFix("stdenv/stdenv.fix"))
+  ]
+)
diff --git a/pkgs/libpng/libpng-build.sh b/pkgs/libpng/libpng-build.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..dec5856ab84c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/libpng/libpng-build.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+#! /bin/sh
+
+envpkgs="$zlib"
+. $stdenv/setup || exit 1
+
+export NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE="-I$zlib/include $NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE"
+
+tar xvfj $src || exit 1
+cd libpng-* || exit 1
+make -f scripts/makefile.linux || exit 1
+mkdir $out || exit 1
+mkdir $out/bin || exit 1
+mkdir $out/lib || exit 1
+mkdir $out/include || exit 1
+make -f scripts/makefile.linux install prefix=$out || exit 1
+strip -S $out/lib/*.a || exit 1
+
+echo $envpkgs > $out/envpkgs || exit 1
diff --git a/pkgs/libpng/libpng.fix b/pkgs/libpng/libpng.fix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..bc1232f261d4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/libpng/libpng.fix
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+Package(
+  [ ("name", "libpng-1.2.5")
+
+  , ("build", Relative("libpng/libpng-build.sh"))
+
+  , ("src", Call(IncludeFix("fetchurl/fetchurl.fix"),
+      [ ("url", "http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/png-mng/libpng-1.2.5.tar.bz2")
+      , ("md5", "3fc28af730f12ace49b14568de4ad934")
+      ]))
+
+  , ("stdenv", IncludeFix("stdenv/stdenv.fix"))
+  , ("zlib", IncludeFix("zlib/zlib.fix"))
+  ]
+)
diff --git a/pkgs/libtiff/libtiff-build.sh b/pkgs/libtiff/libtiff-build.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..6f7b3b168dca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/libtiff/libtiff-build.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#! /bin/sh
+
+envpkgs="$zlib $jpeg"
+. $stdenv/setup || exit 1
+
+tar xvfz $src || exit 1
+cd tiff-* || exit 1
+./configure --prefix=$out --with-DIR_MAN=$out/man \
+ --with-ZIP --with-JPEG \
+ --with-DIRS_LIBINC="$zlib/include $jpeg/include" || exit 1
+make || exit 1
+mkdir $out || exit 1
+make install || exit 1
+strip -S $out/lib/*.a || exit 1
+
+echo $envpkgs > $out/envpkgs || exit 1
diff --git a/pkgs/libtiff/libtiff.fix b/pkgs/libtiff/libtiff.fix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..6e2fcd62e493
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/libtiff/libtiff.fix
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+Package(
+  [ ("name", "libtiff-3.5.7")
+
+  , ("build", Relative("libtiff/libtiff-build.sh"))
+
+  , ("src", Call(IncludeFix("fetchurl/fetchurl.fix"),
+      [ ("url", "ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/libtiff/tiff-v3.5.7.tar.gz")
+      , ("md5", "82243b5ae9b7c9e492aeebc501680990")
+      ]))
+
+  , ("stdenv", IncludeFix("stdenv/stdenv.fix"))
+  , ("zlib", IncludeFix("zlib/zlib.fix"))
+  , ("jpeg", IncludeFix("libjpeg/libjpeg.fix"))
+  ]
+)