diff --git a/pkgs/applications/audio/mpc/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/audio/mpc/default.nix
index 59adb7cde497..73352b650921 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/audio/mpc/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/audio/mpc/default.nix
@@ -17,11 +17,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
-  preConfigure = ''
-    export LIBMPDCLIENT_LIBS=${mpd_clientlib}/lib/libmpdclient.${if stdenv.isDarwin then mpd_clientlib.majorVersion + ".dylib" else "so." + mpd_clientlib.majorVersion + ".0." + mpd_clientlib.minorVersion}
-    export LIBMPDCLIENT_CFLAGS=${mpd_clientlib}
-  '';
-
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "A minimalist command line interface to MPD";
     homepage = http://www.musicpd.org/clients/mpc/;
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/mpd/clientlib.nix b/pkgs/servers/mpd/clientlib.nix
index a48ee83755b5..d9adc0f31029 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/mpd/clientlib.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/mpd/clientlib.nix
@@ -1,24 +1,17 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, autoreconfHook, doxygen }:
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, meson, ninja }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  version = "${passthru.majorVersion}.${passthru.minorVersion}";
+  version = "2.13";
   name = "libmpdclient-${version}";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner  = "MusicPlayerDaemon";
     repo   = "libmpdclient";
     rev    = "v${version}";
-    sha256 = "06rv2j8rw9v9l4nwpvbh28nad8bbg368hzd8s58znbr5pgb8dihd";
+    sha256 = "1g1n6rk8kn87mbjqxxj0vi7haj8xx21xmqlzbrx2fvyp5357zvsq";
   };
 
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ autoreconfHook doxygen ];
-
-  enableParallelBuilding = true;
-
-  passthru = {
-    majorVersion = "2";
-    minorVersion = "11";
-  };
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ meson ninja ];
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "Client library for MPD (music player daemon)";
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/mpdscribble/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/mpdscribble/default.nix
index 1acdf6d7ddb8..56684848ebaa 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/misc/mpdscribble/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/mpdscribble/default.nix
@@ -10,12 +10,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "0hgb7xh3w455m00lpldwkyrc5spjn3q1pl2ry3kf7w3hiigjpphw";
   };
 
-  buildInputs = [ mpd_clientlib curl glib pkgconfig ];
-
-  preConfigure = ''
-    export LIBMPDCLIENT_LIBS=${mpd_clientlib}/lib/libmpdclient.so.${mpd_clientlib.majorVersion}.0.${mpd_clientlib.minorVersion}
-    export LIBMPDCLIENT_CFLAGS=${mpd_clientlib}
-  '';
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
+  buildInputs = [ mpd_clientlib curl glib ];
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "A Music Player Daemon (MPD) client which submits information about tracks beeing played to a scrobbler (e.g. last.fm)";