diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/tevent/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/tevent/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e92ae2ecef1e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/tevent/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, python27, pkgconfig, readline, gettext, talloc
+, libxslt, docbook_xsl, docbook_xml_dtd_42
+, acl ? null, heimdal ? null, libaio ? null, libcap ? null, sasl ? null
+, pam ? null, zlib ? null, libgcrypt ? null
+}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "tevent-0.9.22";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://samba.org/ftp/tevent/${name}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0myyi3lwsi6f3f0a5qw8rjpm2d5yf18pw4vljdwyi885l411sksl";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [
+    python27 pkgconfig readline gettext talloc libxslt docbook_xsl
+    docbook_xml_dtd_42
+    acl heimdal libaio libcap sasl pam zlib libgcrypt
+  ];
+
+  preConfigure = ''
+    sed -i 's,#!/usr/bin/env python,#!${python27}/bin/python,g' buildtools/bin/waf
+  '';
+
+  configureFlags = [
+    "--bundled-libraries=NONE"
+    "--builtin-libraries=replace"
+  ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "an event system based on the talloc memory management library.";
+    homepage = http://tevent.samba.org/;
+    license = licenses.lgpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ wkennington ];
+    platforms = platforms.all;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index fc376a026e6c..a8bb1bbc187b 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -6872,6 +6872,11 @@ let
 
   telepathy_qt = callPackage ../development/libraries/telepathy/qt { };
 
+  tevent = callPackage ../development/libraries/tevent {
+    libgcrypt = libgcrypt_1_6;
+    sasl = cyrus_sasl;
+  };
+
   thrift = callPackage ../development/libraries/thrift { };
 
   tinyxml = tinyxml2;