diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/glew/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/glew/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8024bb92620b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/glew/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+args:
+args.stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "glew-1.5.0";
+
+  src = args.fetchurl {
+    url = http://dfn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/glew/glew-1.5.0-src.tgz;
+    sha256 = "1kjr1fchnl785wsg11vzc03q3pm12lh20n1i593zr1xqfjgx2b4h";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs =(with args; [mesa x11 libXmu libXi libtool]);
+
+  meta = { 
+      description = "cross-platform open-source C/C++ extension loading library";
+      homepage = http://glew.sourceforge.net/;
+      license = ["BSD" "GLX" "SGI-B" "GPL2"]; # License description copied from gentoo-1.4.0 
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index dc45ba2cc317..3f0ebb86d0cc 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -1852,6 +1852,11 @@ rec {
     };
   };
 
+  glew = import ../development/libraries/glew {
+    inherit fetchurl stdenv mesa x11;
+    inherit (xlibs) libXmu libXi;
+  };
+
   glibc = useFromStdenv (stdenv ? glibc) stdenv.glibc
     (import ../development/libraries/glibc {
       inherit fetchurl stdenv kernelHeaders;