diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/nccl/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/nccl/default.nix
index 5036ad890799..c08b5aa5851d 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/nccl/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/science/math/nccl/default.nix
@@ -38,6 +38,10 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
+  passthru = {
+    inherit cudatoolkit;
+  };
+
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "Multi-GPU and multi-node collective communication primitives for NVIDIA GPUs";
     homepage = "https://developer.nvidia.com/nccl";