diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/kconfig-frontends/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/kconfig-frontends/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..13e02fb9272b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/kconfig-frontends/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, bison, flex, gperf, ncurses }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  basename = "kconfig-frontends";
+  version = "3.12.0.0";
+  name = "${basename}-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    sha256 = "01zlph9bq2xzznlpmfpn0zrmhf2iqw02yh1q7g7adgkl5jk1a9pa";
+    url = "http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/download/${basename}/${name}.tar.xz";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ bison flex gperf ncurses pkgconfig ];
+
+  configureFlags = [
+    "--enable-frontends=conf,mconf,nconf"
+  ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Out of Linux tree packaging of the kconfig infrastructure";
+    longDescription = ''
+      Configuration language and system for the Linux kernel and other
+      projects. Features simple syntax and grammar, limited yet adequate option
+      types, simple organization of options, and direct and reverse
+      dependencies.
+    '';
+    homepage = http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/projects/kconfig-frontends;
+    license = licenses.gpl2;
+    platforms = platforms.unix;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ mbe ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index b6beb15d2bad..ec6b5e830654 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -6068,6 +6068,8 @@ in
 
   jenkins-job-builder = pythonPackages.jenkins-job-builder;
 
+  kconfig-frontends = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/kconfig-frontends { };
+
   kcov = callPackage ../development/tools/analysis/kcov { };
 
   lcov = callPackage ../development/tools/analysis/lcov { };