diff --git a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/lua-ml/default.nix b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/lua-ml/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a0db995827a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/lua-ml/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, ocaml, findlib, ocamlbuild, dune }:
+
+if !stdenv.lib.versionAtLeast ocaml.version "4.07"
+then throw "lua-ml is not available for OCaml ${ocaml.version}"
+else
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  pname = "lua-ml";
+  name = "ocaml${ocaml.version}-${pname}-${version}";
+  version = "0.9";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "lindig";
+    repo = pname;
+    rev = "${version}";
+    sha256 = "09lj6qykg15fdf65in7xdry0jcifcr8vqbvz85v12gwfckmmxjir";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ ocaml findlib ocamlbuild ];
+
+  buildFlags = [ "lib" ];
+
+  inherit (dune) installPhase;
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "An embeddable Lua 2.5 interpreter implemented in OCaml";
+    inherit (src.meta) homepage;
+    inherit (ocaml.meta) platforms;
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.bsd2;
+    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.vbgl ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/ocaml-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/ocaml-packages.nix
index f3be97c30a7e..f46d953fb48a 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/ocaml-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/ocaml-packages.nix
@@ -444,6 +444,8 @@ let
 
     lru = callPackage ../development/ocaml-modules/lru { };
 
+    lua-ml = callPackage ../development/ocaml-modules/lua-ml { };
+
     lwt2 = callPackage ../development/ocaml-modules/lwt/legacy.nix { };
 
     lwt4 = callPackage ../development/ocaml-modules/lwt/4.x.nix { };