diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/sc/scalapack/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/sc/scalapack/package.nix
index aee2fc557426..4842b78f734a 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/sc/scalapack/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/sc/scalapack/package.nix
@@ -4,26 +4,33 @@
   fetchFromGitHub,
   fetchpatch,
   cmake,
+  gfortran,
   mpiCheckPhaseHook,
   mpi,
   blas,
   lapack,
+  testers,
 }:
 
 assert blas.isILP64 == lapack.isILP64;
 
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
   pname = "scalapack";
   version = "2.2.2";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "Reference-ScaLAPACK";
     repo = "scalapack";
-    tag = "v${version}";
+    tag = "v${finalAttrs.version}";
     hash = "sha256-KDMW/D7ubGaD2L7eTwULJ04fAYDPAKl8xKPZGZMkeik=";
   };
 
-  passthru = { inherit (blas) isILP64; };
+  passthru = {
+    inherit (blas) isILP64;
+    tests.pkg-config = testers.hasPkgConfigModules {
+      package = finalAttrs.finalPackage;
+    };
+  };
 
   __structuredAttrs = true;
 
@@ -37,7 +44,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   # Required to activate ILP64.
   # See https://github.com/Reference-ScaLAPACK/scalapack/pull/19
-  postPatch = lib.optionalString passthru.isILP64 ''
+  postPatch = lib.optionalString finalAttrs.passthru.isILP64 ''
     sed -i 's/INTSZ = 4/INTSZ = 8/g'   TESTING/EIG/* TESTING/LIN/*
     sed -i 's/INTGSZ = 4/INTGSZ = 8/g' TESTING/EIG/* TESTING/LIN/*
 
@@ -50,36 +57,35 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     "dev"
   ];
 
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake ];
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    cmake
+    gfortran
+  ];
+
   nativeCheckInputs = [ mpiCheckPhaseHook ];
-  buildInputs = [
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
     blas
     lapack
-  ];
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [ mpi ];
-  hardeningDisable = lib.optionals (stdenv.hostPlatform.isAarch64 && stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin) [
-    "stackprotector"
+    mpi
   ];
 
   # xslu and xsllt tests seem to time out on x86_64-darwin.
   # this line is left so those who force installation on x86_64-darwin can still build
   doCheck = !(stdenv.hostPlatform.isx86_64 && stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin);
 
-  preConfigure = ''
-    cmakeFlagsArray+=(
-      -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON -DBUILD_STATIC_LIBS=OFF
-      -DLAPACK_LIBRARIES="-llapack"
-      -DBLAS_LIBRARIES="-lblas"
-      -DCMAKE_Fortran_COMPILER=${lib.getDev mpi}/bin/mpif90
-      -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS="${
-        lib.concatStringsSep " " [
-          "-Wno-implicit-function-declaration"
-          (lib.optionalString passthru.isILP64 "-DInt=long")
-        ]
-      }"
-      ${lib.optionalString passthru.isILP64 ''-DCMAKE_Fortran_FLAGS="-fdefault-integer-8"''}
-      )
-  '';
+  cmakeFlagsArray = [
+    (lib.cmakeBool "BUILD_SHARED_LIBS" (!stdenv.hostPlatform.isStatic))
+    (lib.cmakeFeature "LAPACK_LIBRARIES" "-llapack")
+    (lib.cmakeFeature "BLAS_LIBRARIES" "-lblas")
+    (lib.cmakeFeature "CMAKE_C_FLAGS" "${lib.concatStringsSep " " [
+      "-Wno-implicit-function-declaration"
+      (lib.optionalString finalAttrs.passthru.isILP64 "-DInt=long")
+    ]}")
+  ]
+  ++ lib.optionals finalAttrs.passthru.isILP64 [
+    (lib.cmakeFeature "CMAKE_Fortran_FLAGS" "-fdefault-integer-8")
+  ];
 
   # Increase individual test timeout from 1500s to 10000s because hydra's builds
   # sometimes fail due to this
@@ -89,16 +95,17 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     # _IMPORT_PREFIX, used to point to lib, points to dev output. Every package using the generated
     # cmake file will thus look for the library in the dev output instead of out.
     # Use the absolute path to $out instead to fix the issue.
-    substituteInPlace  $dev/lib/cmake/scalapack-${version}/scalapack-targets-release.cmake \
+    substituteInPlace  $dev/lib/cmake/scalapack-${finalAttrs.version}/scalapack-targets-release.cmake \
       --replace "\''${_IMPORT_PREFIX}" "$out"
   '';
 
-  meta = with lib; {
+  meta = {
     homepage = "http://www.netlib.org/scalapack/";
     description = "Library of high-performance linear algebra routines for parallel distributed memory machines";
-    license = licenses.bsd3;
-    platforms = platforms.unix;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [
+    license = lib.licenses.bsd3;
+    platforms = lib.platforms.unix;
+    pkgConfigModules = [ "scalapack" ];
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [
       costrouc
       markuskowa
       gdinh
@@ -106,4 +113,4 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     # xslu and xsllt tests fail on x86 darwin
     broken = stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin && stdenv.hostPlatform.isx86_64;
   };
-}
+})