diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/czmq/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/czmq/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8c513978cfdb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/czmq/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl, zeromq4}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  baseName="czmq";
+  version="3.0.0-rc1";
+  name="${baseName}-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://download.zeromq.org/${name}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1g3rk3fz7xzsbqcdcwn0x18nmiyr70k47kg00gdrq8g10li8mmd9";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ zeromq4 ];
+
+  meta = {
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.mpl20;
+    homepage = "http://czmq.zeromq.org/";
+    description = "High-level C Binding for ZeroMQ";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 8fa8165283cc..468f8ab7f254 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -2809,7 +2809,7 @@ let
   };
 
   wml = callPackage ../development/web/wml { };
-  
+
   wv = callPackage ../tools/misc/wv { };
 
   wv2 = callPackage ../tools/misc/wv2 { };
@@ -7209,6 +7209,8 @@ let
 
   cppzmq = callPackage ../development/libraries/cppzmq {};
 
+  czmq = callPackage ../development/libraries/czmq { };
+
   zziplib = callPackage ../development/libraries/zziplib { };
 
   ### DEVELOPMENT / LIBRARIES / AGDA