diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/ming/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/ming/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index e9777fe5635e..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/ming/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub
-, autoreconfHook, flex, bison, perl
-, zlib, freetype, libpng, giflib
-}:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  pname = "ming";
-  version = "0.4.7";
-  name = "${pname}-${version}";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    repo = "libming";
-    owner = "libming";
-    rev = "${pname}-${stdenv.lib.replaceStrings ["."] ["_"] version}";
-    sha256 = "17ngz1n1mnknixzchywkhbw9s3scad8ajmk97gx14xbsw1603gd2";
-  };
-
-  # We don't currently build the Python, Perl, PHP, etc. bindings.
-  # Perl is needed for the test suite, though.
-
-  outputs = [ "bin" "dev" "out" ];
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ autoreconfHook flex bison perl ];
-  buildInputs = [ freetype zlib libpng giflib ];
-
-  postFixup = ''moveToOutput "bin/ming-config" $dev'';
-
-  doCheck = true;
-
-  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
-    description = "Library for generating Flash `.swf' files";
-
-    longDescription = ''
-      Ming is a library for generating Macromedia Flash files (.swf),
-      written in C, and includes useful utilities for working with
-      .swf files.  It has wrappers that allow it to be used in C++,
-      PHP, Python, Ruby, and Perl.
-    '';
-
-    homepage = http://www.libming.org/;
-
-    license = licenses.lgpl2Plus;
-    platforms = platforms.unix;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index d38479b26d56..9f052ffaaa68 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -8804,8 +8804,6 @@ with pkgs;
 
   mhddfs = callPackage ../tools/filesystems/mhddfs { };
 
-  ming = callPackage ../development/libraries/ming { };
-
   minizip = callPackage ../development/libraries/minizip { };
 
   miro = callPackage ../applications/video/miro {