diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/documentation/doxygen/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/documentation/doxygen/default.nix
index 82bbab5ff87e..c843f0d2eefd 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/documentation/doxygen/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/documentation/doxygen/default.nix
@@ -1,45 +1,24 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, perl, python, flex, bison, qt4, CoreServices, libiconv }:
+{ stdenv, cmake, fetchurl, perl, python, flex, bison, qt4, CoreServices, libiconv }:
 
-let
-  name = "doxygen-1.8.6";
-in
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  inherit name;
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
+  name = "doxygen-1.8.11";
+  
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "ftp://ftp.stack.nl/pub/users/dimitri/${name}.src.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "0pskjlkbj76m9ka7zi66yj8ffjcv821izv3qxqyyphf0y0jqcwba";
+    sha256 = "0ja02pm3fpfhc5dkry00kq8mn141cqvdqqpmms373ncbwi38pl35";
   };
 
-  prePatch = ''
-    substituteInPlace configure --replace /usr/bin/install $(type -P install)
-  '';
-
-  patches = [ ./tmake.patch ];
-
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake ];
+  
   buildInputs =
     [ perl python flex bison ]
     ++ stdenv.lib.optional (qt4 != null) qt4
     ++ stdenv.lib.optional stdenv.isSunOS libiconv
     ++ stdenv.lib.optionals stdenv.isDarwin [ CoreServices libiconv ];
 
-  prefixKey = "--prefix ";
-
-  configureFlags =
-    [ "--dot dot" ]
-    ++ stdenv.lib.optional stdenv.isSunOS "--install install"
-    ++ stdenv.lib.optional (qt4 != null) "--with-doxywizard";
-
-  preConfigure =
-    ''
-      patchShebangs .
-    '' + stdenv.lib.optionalString (qt4 != null)
-    ''
-      echo "using QTDIR=${qt4}..."
-      export QTDIR=${qt4}
-    '';
-
-  makeFlags = "MAN1DIR=share/man/man1";
+  cmakeFlags =
+    stdenv.lib.optional (qt4 != null) "-Dbuild_wizard=YES";
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/documentation/doxygen/tmake.patch b/pkgs/development/tools/documentation/doxygen/tmake.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 4bba986c12c9..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/documentation/doxygen/tmake.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-Fix the `check_unix' function, which looks for `/bin/uname' to determine
-whether we're on a Unix-like system.
-
---- doxygen-1.5.8/tmake/bin/tmake	2008-12-06 14:16:20.000000000 +0100
-+++ doxygen-1.5.8/tmake/bin/tmake	2009-03-05 11:29:55.000000000 +0100
-@@ -234,17 +234,7 @@ sub tmake_verb {
- #
- 
- sub check_unix {
--    my($r);
--    $r = 0;
--    if ( -f "/bin/uname" ) {
--	$r = 1;
--	(-f "\\bin\\uname") && ($r = 0);
--    }
--    if ( -f "/usr/bin/uname" ) {
--	$r = 1;
--	(-f "\\usr\\bin\\uname") && ($r = 0);
--    }
--    return $r;
-+    return 1;
- }
-