diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/cppi/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/cppi/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..78bcb2226a3a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/cppi/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+{ fetchurl, xz, stdenv }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "cppi-1.14";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://gnu/cppi/${name}.tar.xz";
+    sha256 = "0n7388f5z4nnyh17rnj7h0kvml3x2mba6a5km87k2bvm5v4mcrfc";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ xz ];
+
+  doCheck = true;
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/cppi/;
+
+    description = "GNU cppi, a cpp directive indenter";
+
+    longDescription =
+      '' GNU cppi indents C preprocessor directives to reflect their nesting
+         and ensure that there is exactly one space character between each #if,
+         #elif, #define directive and the following token.  The number of
+         spaces between the `#' and the following directive must correspond
+         to the level of nesting of that directive.
+      '';
+
+    license = "GPLv3+";
+
+    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.ludo ];
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.all;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 520b4eba5aa3..a014878dbdee 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -2906,6 +2906,10 @@ let
     inherit fetchurl stdenv perl python ocaml ncurses makeWrapper;
   };
 
+  cppi = import ../development/tools/misc/cppi {
+    inherit fetchurl stdenv xz;
+  };
+
   cproto = import ../development/tools/misc/cproto {
     inherit fetchurl stdenv flex bison;
   };