diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/cppcms/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/cppcms/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..063d07e35243
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/cppcms/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, cmake, pcre, zlib, python, openssl }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "cppcms";
+  version = "1.0.5";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+      url = "mirror://sourceforge/cppcms/${name}-${version}.tar.bz2";
+      sha256 = "0r8qyp102sq4lw8xhrjhan0dnslhsmxj4zs9jzlw75yagfbqbdl4";
+  };
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  buildInputs = [ cmake pcre zlib python openssl ];
+
+  cmakeFlags = [
+    "--no-warn-unused-cli"
+  ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = "http://cppcms.com";
+    description = "High Performance C++ Web Framework";
+    platforms = platforms.linux ;
+    license = licenses.lgpl3;
+    maintainers = [ maintainers.juliendehos ];
+  };
+}
+
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 8c68b35a56f0..a58e09dc993a 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -7076,6 +7076,8 @@ in
 
   cpp-netlib = callPackage ../development/libraries/cpp-netlib { };
 
+  cppcms = callPackage ../development/libraries/cppcms { };
+
   cppunit = callPackage ../development/libraries/cppunit { };
 
   cpputest = callPackage ../development/libraries/cpputest { };