diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/misc/golly/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/science/misc/golly/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ac37655d53b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/science/misc/golly/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+x@{builderDefsPackage, 
+  wxGTK, perl, python, zlib
+  , ...}:
+builderDefsPackage
+(a :  
+let 
+  s = import ./src-for-default.nix;
+  helperArgNames = ["builderDefsPackage"] ++ 
+    [];
+  buildInputs = map (n: builtins.getAttr n x)
+    (builtins.attrNames (builtins.removeAttrs x helperArgNames));
+in
+rec {
+  src = a.fetchUrlFromSrcInfo s;
+
+  inherit (s) name;
+  inherit buildInputs;
+
+  /* doConfigure should be removed if not needed */
+  phaseNames = ["setVars" "doMake" "doDeploy"];
+  setVars = a.noDepEntry ''
+    export NIX_LDFLAGS="$NIX_LDFLAGS -lperl -L$(echo "${perl}"/lib/perl5/5*/*/CORE)"
+    pythonLib="$(echo "${python}"/lib/libpython*.so)"
+    pythonLib="''${pythonLib##*/lib}"
+    pythonLib="''${pythonLib%%.so}"
+    export NIX_LDFLAGS="$NIX_LDFLAGS -l$pythonLib"
+    echo "Flags: $NIX_LDFLAGS"
+  '';
+  goSrcDir = ''cd */'';
+  makeFlags = [
+    "-f makefile-gtk"
+    ];
+  doDeploy = a.fullDepEntry ''
+    cat < ${./make-install.make}  >> makefile-gtk
+    make -f makefile-gtk out="$out" install
+  '' ["minInit" "doMake" "defEnsureDir"];
+      
+  meta = {
+    description = "Cellular automata simulation program";
+    maintainers = with a.lib.maintainers;
+    [
+      raskin
+    ];
+    platforms = with a.lib.platforms;
+      linux;
+  };
+}) x
+
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/misc/golly/make-install.make b/pkgs/applications/science/misc/golly/make-install.make
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1d082e2b6cec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/science/misc/golly/make-install.make
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+
+install_file = echo "\#! /bin/sh" > "$(out)/bin/$(binfile)"; echo "$(out)/share/golly/$(binfile)" >> "$(out)/bin/$(binfile)"; chmod a+x "$(out)/bin/$(binfile)";
+
+install:
+	mkdir -p "$(out)/share/golly"
+	mkdir -p "$(out)/bin"
+	cp -r $(BINFILES) $(SHAREDFILES) "$(out)/share/golly"
+	$(foreach binfile,$(BINFILES),$(install_file))
+
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/misc/golly/src-for-default.nix b/pkgs/applications/science/misc/golly/src-for-default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f60df2da3152
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/science/misc/golly/src-for-default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+rec {
+   version="2.1-src";
+   name="golly-2.1-src";
+   hash="0m9sz0b7pwsxpgvscdvab2q8qnncr337gg3anzgzw83z5zyn3rdz";
+   url="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/golly/golly/golly-2.1/golly-2.1-src.tar.gz";
+   advertisedUrl="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/golly/golly/golly-2.1/golly-2.1-src.tar.gz";
+  
+  
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/misc/golly/src-info-for-default.nix b/pkgs/applications/science/misc/golly/src-info-for-default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c3bbb262a6f5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/science/misc/golly/src-info-for-default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+{
+  downloadPage = "http://sourceforge.net/projects/golly/files/";
+  method="fetchSF";
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/builder-defs/template-auto-callable.nix b/pkgs/build-support/builder-defs/template-auto-callable.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..4801e4253028
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/build-support/builder-defs/template-auto-callable.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+x@{builderDefsPackage
+  (abort "Specify dependencies")
+  , ...}:
+builderDefsPackage
+(a :  
+let 
+  s = import ./src-for-default.nix;
+  helperArgNames = ["stdenv" "fetchurl" "builderDefsPackage"] ++ 
+    [(abort "Specify helper argument names")];
+  buildInputs = map (n: builtins.getAttr n x)
+    (builtins.attrNames (builtins.removeAttrs x helperArgNames));
+in
+rec {
+  src = a.fetchUrlFromSrcInfo s;
+
+  inherit (s) name;
+  inherit buildInputs;
+
+  /* doConfigure should be removed if not needed */
+  phaseNames = ["doConfigure" "doMakeInstall"];
+      
+  meta = {
+    description = "${abort ''Specify description''}";
+    maintainers = with a.lib.maintainers;
+    [
+      (abort "Specify maintainers")
+    ];
+    platforms = with a.lib.platforms;
+      (abort "Specify platforms");
+  };
+}) x
+
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 32825537ccc2..a316c8b528a6 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -9583,6 +9583,11 @@ let
 
   ### SCIENCE / MISC
 
+  golly = import ../applications/science/misc/golly {
+    inherit builderDefsPackage wxGTK perl zlib
+      python;
+  };
+
   simgrid = import ../applications/science/misc/simgrid {
     inherit fetchurl cmake ruby;
     stdenv = stdenv2;