diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/darwin/apple-source-releases/adv_cmds/boot.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/darwin/apple-source-releases/adv_cmds/boot.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 7d1066a25915..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/darwin/apple-source-releases/adv_cmds/boot.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,101 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, buildPackages, appleDerivation, fetchFromGitHub, bsdmake, perl, flex, bison
-}:
-
-# this derivation sucks
-# locale data was removed after adv_cmds-118, so our base is that because it's easier than
-# replicating the bizarre bsdmake file structure
-#
-# sadly adv_cmds-118 builds a mklocale and colldef that generate files that our libc can no
-# longer understand
-#
-# the more recent adv_cmds release is used for everything else in this package
-
-let recentAdvCmds = fetchFromGitHub {
-  owner = "apple-oss-distributions";
-  repo = "adv_cmds";
-  rev = "adv_cmds-158";
-  hash = "sha256-1qL69pGHIaefooJJ8eT83XGz9+bW7Yg3k+X9fNkMCHw=";
-};
-
-in appleDerivation {
-  depsBuildBuild = [ buildPackages.stdenv.cc ];
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ bsdmake perl bison flex ];
-  buildInputs = [ flex ];
-
-  patchPhase = ''
-    substituteInPlace BSDmakefile \
-      --replace chgrp true \
-      --replace /Developer/Makefiles/bin/compress-man-pages.pl true \
-      --replace "ps.tproj" "" --replace "gencat.tproj" "" --replace "md.tproj" "" \
-      --replace "tabs.tproj" "" --replace "cap_mkdb.tproj" "" \
-      --replace "!= tconf --test TARGET_OS_EMBEDDED" "= NO"
-
-    substituteInPlace Makefile --replace perl true
-
-    substituteInPlace colldef.tproj/scan.l \
-      --replace 'static orderpass = 0;' 'static int orderpass = 0;'
-
-    for subproject in colldef mklocale monetdef msgdef numericdef timedef; do
-      substituteInPlace usr-share-locale.tproj/$subproject/BSDmakefile \
-        --replace /usr/share/locale "" \
-        --replace '-o ''${BINOWN} -g ''${BINGRP}' "" \
-        --replace "rsync -a" "cp -r"
-    done
-  '';
-
-  preBuild = ''
-    cp -r --no-preserve=all ${recentAdvCmds}/colldef .
-
-    substituteInPlace colldef/scan.l \
-      --replace 'static orderpass = 0;' 'static int orderpass = 0;'
-
-    pushd colldef
-    mv locale/collate.h .
-    flex -t -8 -i scan.l > scan.c
-    yacc -d parse.y
-    clang *.c -o colldef -lfl
-    popd
-    mv colldef/colldef colldef.tproj/colldef
-
-    cp -r --no-preserve=all ${recentAdvCmds}/mklocale .
-    pushd mklocale
-    flex -t -8 -i lex.l > lex.c
-    yacc -d yacc.y
-    clang *.c -o mklocale -lfl
-    popd
-    mv mklocale/mklocale mklocale.tproj/mklocale
-  '';
-
-  buildPhase = ''
-    runHook preBuild
-
-    bsdmake -C usr-share-locale.tproj
-
-    ${stdenv.cc.targetPrefix}clang ${recentAdvCmds}/ps/*.c -o ps
-  '';
-
-  installPhase = ''
-    bsdmake -C usr-share-locale.tproj install DESTDIR="$locale/share/locale"
-
-    # need to get rid of runtime dependency on flex
-    # install -d 0755 $locale/bin
-    # install -m 0755 colldef.tproj/colldef $locale/bin
-    # install -m 0755 mklocale.tproj/mklocale $locale/bin
-
-    install -d 0755 $ps/bin
-    install ps $ps/bin/ps
-    touch "$out"
-  '';
-
-  outputs = [
-    "out"
-    "ps"
-    "locale"
-  ];
-  setOutputFlags = false;
-
-  meta = {
-    platforms = lib.platforms.darwin;
-    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ gridaphobe ];
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/darwin/apple-source-releases/adv_cmds/default.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/darwin/apple-source-releases/adv_cmds/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 3ac338d5c619..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/darwin/apple-source-releases/adv_cmds/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,65 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, lib, appleDerivation, xcbuild, ncurses, libutil, Libc }:
-
-let
-  # Libc conflicts with libc++ 16, so provide only the header from it that’s needed to build.
-  msgcat = stdenv.mkDerivation {
-    pname = "Libc-msgcat";
-    version = lib.getVersion Libc;
-
-    buildCommand = ''
-      mkdir -p "$out/include"
-      ln -s ${lib.getDev Libc}/include/msgcat.h "$out/include/"
-    '';
-  };
-in
-appleDerivation {
-  # We can't just run the root build, because https://github.com/facebook/xcbuild/issues/264
-
-  patchPhase = ''
-    substituteInPlace adv_cmds.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj \
-      --replace '/usr/lib/libtermcap.dylib' 'libncurses.dylib'
-    substituteInPlace colldef/scan.l \
-      --replace 'static orderpass = 0;' 'static int orderpass = 0;'
-  '';
-
-  # pkill requires special private headers that are unavailable in
-  # NixPkgs. These ones are needed:
-  #  - xpc/xpxc.h
-  #  - os/base_private.h
-  #  - _simple.h
-  # We disable it here for now. TODO: build pkill inside adv_cmds
-  buildPhase = ''
-    targets=$(xcodebuild -list \
-                | awk '/Targets:/{p=1;print;next} p&&/^\s*$/{p=0};p' \
-                | tail -n +2 | sed 's/^[ \t]*//' \
-                | grep -v -e Desktop -e Embedded -e mklocale -e pkill -e pgrep -e colldef)
-
-    for i in $targets; do
-      xcodebuild SYMROOT=$PWD/Products OBJROOT=$PWD/Intermediates -target $i
-    done
-  '';
-
-  # temporary install phase until xcodebuild has "install" support
-  installPhase = ''
-    for f in Products/Release/*; do
-      if [ -f $f ]; then
-        install -D $f $out/bin/$(basename $f)
-      fi
-    done
-
-    mkdir -p $out/System/Library/LaunchDaemons
-    install fingerd/finger.plist $out/System/Library/LaunchDaemons
-
-    # from variant_links.sh
-    # ln -s $out/bin/pkill $out/bin/pgrep
-    # ln -s $out/share/man/man1/pkill.1 $out/share/man/man1/pgrep.1
-  '';
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ xcbuild ];
-  buildInputs = [ ncurses libutil msgcat ];
-
-  meta = {
-    platforms = lib.platforms.darwin;
-    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ matthewbauer ];
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/darwin/apple-source-releases/adv_cmds/meson.build.in b/pkgs/os-specific/darwin/apple-source-releases/adv_cmds/meson.build.in
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..3b6159cabe2d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/darwin/apple-source-releases/adv_cmds/meson.build.in
@@ -0,0 +1,220 @@
+# Build settings based on the upstream Xcode project.
+# See: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/adv_cmds/blob/main/adv_cmds.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj
+
+# Project settings
+project('adv_cmds', 'c', 'cpp', version : '@version@')
+
+sdk_version = get_option('sdk_version')
+
+
+# Dependencies
+cc = meson.get_compiler('c')
+cxx = meson.get_compiler('cpp')
+
+dbm = cc.find_library('dbm')
+ncurses = dependency('ncurses')
+
+
+# Generators
+bison_bin = find_program('bison', required : true)
+flex_bin = find_program('flex', required : true)
+
+bison = generator(
+    bison_bin,
+    arguments : ['@INPUT@', '--header=@OUTPUT0@', '--output=@OUTPUT1@'],
+    output : [ '@BASENAME@.tab.h', '@BASENAME@.tab.c'],
+)
+
+flex = generator(
+    flex_bin,
+    arguments : ['--header-file=@OUTPUT0@', '--outfile=@OUTPUT1@', '@INPUT@'],
+    output : ['@BASENAME@.yy.h', '@BASENAME@.yy.c'],
+)
+
+
+# Binaries
+executable(
+    'cap_mkdb',
+    dependencies : dbm,
+    install : true,
+    sources : ['cap_mkdb/cap_mkdb.c'],
+)
+install_man('cap_mkdb/cap_mkdb.1')
+
+executable(
+    'colldef',
+    dependencies : dbm,
+    include_directories : [
+        'colldef',
+        'colldef/locale',
+    ],
+    install : true,
+    sources : [
+        bison.process('colldef/parse.y'),
+        flex.process('colldef/scan.l'),
+    ],
+)
+install_man('colldef/colldef.1')
+
+executable(
+    'finger',
+    dependencies : dbm,
+    install : true,
+    sources : [
+        'finger/finger.c',
+        'finger/lprint.c',
+        'finger/net.c',
+        'finger/sprint.c',
+        'finger/util.c',
+    ],
+)
+install_man(
+    'finger/finger.1',
+    'finger/finger.conf.5'
+)
+
+executable(
+    'gencat',
+    install : true,
+    sources : [
+        'gencat/gencat.c',
+        'gencat/genlib.c',
+    ],
+)
+install_man('gencat/gencat.1')
+
+executable(
+    'genwrap',
+    include_directories : 'genwrap',
+    install : true,
+    sources : [
+        'genwrap/genwrap.c',
+        bison.process('genwrap/genwrap.y'),
+        flex.process('genwrap/lex.l'),
+    ],
+)
+install_data(
+    'genwrap/wrapper-head.c',
+    'genwrap/wrapper-tail.c',
+    install_dir : get_option('datadir') + '/genwrap'
+)
+install_data(
+    'genwrap/sample.make',
+    'genwrap/sample.rsync',
+    install_dir : get_option('datadir') + '/genwrap/examples'
+)
+install_man('genwrap/genwrap.8')
+
+executable(
+    'last',
+    install : true,
+    sources : ['last/last.c'],
+)
+install_man('last/last.1')
+
+executable(
+    'locale',
+    install : true,
+    sources : ['locale/locale.cc'],
+)
+install_man('locale/locale.1')
+
+# TODO(@reckenrode) Requires Perl. Needs separate packaging.
+custom_target(
+    'localedef',
+    command : [ 'cp', '@INPUT@', '@OUTPUT@' ],
+    install : true,
+    install_dir : get_option('bindir'),
+    install_mode : 'r-xr-xr-x',
+    input : 'localedef/localedef.pl',
+    output : 'localedef',
+)
+install_man('localedef/localedef.1')
+
+executable(
+    'lsvfs',
+    install : true,
+    sources : ['lsvfs/lsvfs.c'],
+)
+install_man('lsvfs/lsvfs.1')
+
+executable(
+    'mklocale',
+    include_directories : 'mklocale',
+    install : true,
+    sources : [
+        bison.process('mklocale/yacc.y'),
+        flex.process('mklocale/lex.l'),
+    ],
+)
+install_man('mklocale/mklocale.1')
+
+executable(
+    'pkill',
+    # Requires undocumented, private sysmon.h.
+    build_by_default : false,
+    install : false,
+    sources : ['pkill/pkill.c'],
+)
+# install_man('pkill/pkill.1')
+
+executable(
+    'ps',
+    c_args : [
+        # Needed for `persona.h`
+        '-DPRIVATE',
+        # From bsd/sys/event_private.h
+        '-Dkqueue_id_t=uint64_t'
+    ],
+    install : true,
+    sources : [
+        'ps/fmt.c',
+        'ps/keyword.c',
+        'ps/nlist.c',
+        'ps/print.c',
+        'ps/ps.c',
+        'ps/tasks.c',
+    ],
+)
+install_man('ps/ps.1')
+
+executable(
+    'stty',
+    build_by_default : sdk_version.version_compare('>=11.3'),
+    install : sdk_version.version_compare('>=11.3'),
+    sources : [
+        'stty/cchar.c',
+        'stty/gfmt.c',
+        'stty/key.c',
+        'stty/modes.c',
+        'stty/print.c',
+        'stty/stty.c',
+        'stty/util.c',
+    ],
+)
+if sdk_version.version_compare('>=11.3')
+    install_man('stty/stty.1')
+endif
+
+executable(
+    'tabs',
+    dependencies : ncurses,
+    install : true,
+    sources : ['tabs/tabs.c'],
+)
+install_man('tabs/tabs.1')
+
+executable(
+    'tty',
+    install : true,
+    sources : ['tty/tty.c'],
+)
+install_man('tty/tty.1')
+
+executable(
+    'whois',
+    install : true,
+    sources : ['whois/whois.c'],
+)
+install_man('whois/whois.1')
+
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/darwin/apple-source-releases/adv_cmds/meson.options b/pkgs/os-specific/darwin/apple-source-releases/adv_cmds/meson.options
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8c4ce874c64c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/darwin/apple-source-releases/adv_cmds/meson.options
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+option('sdk_version', type : 'string')
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/darwin/apple-source-releases/adv_cmds/package.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/darwin/apple-source-releases/adv_cmds/package.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5b190694326d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/darwin/apple-source-releases/adv_cmds/package.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
+{
+  lib,
+  apple-sdk,
+  apple-sdk_11,
+  bison,
+  flex,
+  mkAppleDerivation,
+  ncurses,
+  perl,
+  pkg-config,
+  stdenvNoCC,
+}:
+
+let
+  Libc = apple-sdk_11.sourceRelease "Libc";
+  libplatform = apple-sdk_11.sourceRelease "libplatform";
+  xnu = apple-sdk_11.sourceRelease "xnu";
+
+  privateHeaders = stdenvNoCC.mkDerivation {
+    name = "adv_cmds-deps-private-headers";
+
+    buildCommand = ''
+      install -D -m644 -t "$out/include" \
+        '${libplatform}/private/_simple.h' \
+        '${Libc}/nls/FreeBSD/msgcat.h'
+
+      install -D -m644 -t "$out/include/System/sys" \
+        '${xnu}/bsd/sys/persona.h' \
+        '${xnu}/bsd/sys/proc.h'
+    '';
+  };
+in
+mkAppleDerivation {
+  releaseName = "adv_cmds";
+
+  outputs = [
+    "out"
+    "locale"
+    "ps"
+    "man"
+  ];
+
+  xcodeHash = "sha256-cpoHF++eko3NHGJlKnFONKnGkVRD0zI+bg/XLzWtpN8=";
+
+  postPatch = ''
+    # Meson generators require using @BASENAME@ in the output.
+    substituteInPlace mklocale/lex.l \
+      --replace-fail y.tab.h yacc.tab.h
+    substituteInPlace genwrap/lex.l \
+      --replace-fail y.tab.h genwrap.tab.h
+    substituteInPlace colldef/scan.l \
+      --replace-fail y.tab.h parse.tab.h
+
+    # Fix paths to point to the store
+    for file in genwrap.c genwrap.8; do
+      substituteInPlace genwrap/$file \
+        --replace-fail '/usr/local' "$out"
+    done
+
+    substituteInPlace localedef/localedef.pl \
+      --replace-fail '/usr/bin/perl' '${lib.getExe perl}' \
+      --replace-fail '/usr/bin' "$out/bin" \
+      --replace-fail '/usr/share/locale' "$locale/share/locale"
+  '';
+
+  env.NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = "-I${privateHeaders}/include";
+
+  buildInputs = [
+    # Use the 11.3 SDK because CMake depends on adv_cmds.ps, so it can’t simply be omitted when using an older SDK.
+    apple-sdk_11
+    ncurses
+  ];
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    bison
+    flex
+    perl
+    pkg-config
+  ];
+
+  mesonFlags = [
+    # Even though adv_cmds is built with a newer SDK, the default SDK is still the deployment target.
+    # Don’t build packages that use newer APIs unnecessarily.
+    (lib.mesonOption "sdk_version" (lib.getVersion apple-sdk))
+  ];
+
+  postBuild = ''
+    # Build the locales TODO
+  '';
+
+  postInstall = ''
+    moveToOutput share/locale "$locale"
+    moveToOutput bin/ps "$ps"
+    ln -s "$ps/bin/ps" "$out/bin/ps"
+    mkdir -p "$locale/share/locale"
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Advanced commands package for Darwin";
+    license = [
+      lib.licenses.apsl10
+      lib.licenses.apsl20
+    ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/darwin/apple-source-releases/default.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/darwin/apple-source-releases/default.nix
index 192dcd8301a3..ab0313cfb0c3 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/darwin/apple-source-releases/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/darwin/apple-source-releases/default.nix
@@ -253,15 +253,12 @@ let
     inherit (pkgs.darwin) bootstrapStdenv xcodeProjectCheckHook;
   };
 
-  # Only used for bootstrapping. It’s convenient because it was the last version to come with a real makefile.
-  adv_cmds-boot = applePackage "adv_cmds/boot.nix" "osx-10.5.8" "sha256-/OJLNpATyS31W5nWfJgSVO5itp8j55TRwG57/QLT5Fg=" {};
-
 in
 
 developerToolsPackages_11_3_1 // macosPackages_11_0_1 // {
     # TODO: shorten this list, we should cut down to a minimum set of bootstrap or necessary packages here.
 
-    inherit (adv_cmds-boot) ps locale;
+    inherit (self.adv_cmds) ps locale;
     architecture    = applePackage "architecture"      "osx-10.11.6"     "sha256-cUKeMx6mOAxBSRHIdfzsrR65Qv86m7+20XvpKqVfwVI=" {};
     AvailabilityVersions = applePackage "AvailabilityVersions" "macos-14.4" "sha256-O9/EOsbK5ZXxh6iDSTwGWWrY5GX/viUwdfG3tdvZwcQ=" {};
     bsdmake         = applePackage "bsdmake"           "dev-tools-3.2.6" "sha256-CW8zP5QZMhWTGp+rhrm8oHE/vSLsRlv1VRAGe1OUDmI=" {};
@@ -311,7 +308,7 @@ developerToolsPackages_11_3_1 // macosPackages_11_0_1 // {
     else macosPackages_11_0_1.xnu;
     hfs             = applePackage "hfs"               "osx-10.12.6"     "sha256-eGi18HQFJrU5UHoBOE0LqO5gQ0xOf8+OJuAWQljfKE4=" {};
     Librpcsvc       = applePackage "Librpcsvc"         "osx-10.11.6"     "sha256-YHbGws901xONzAbo6sB5zSea4Wp0sgYUJ8YgwVfWxnE=" {};
-    adv_cmds        = applePackage "adv_cmds"          "osx-10.11.6"     "sha256-Ztp8ALWcviEpthoiY8ttWzGI8OcsLzsULjlqe8GIzw8=" {};
+    adv_cmds        = callPackage ./adv_cmds/package.nix { };
     basic_cmds      = applePackage "basic_cmds"        "osx-10.11.6"     "sha256-BYPPTg4/7x6RPs0WwwQlkNiZxxArV+7EVe6bM+a/I6Q=" {};
     developer_cmds  = applePackage "developer_cmds"    "osx-10.11.6"     "sha256-h0wMVlS6QdRvKOVJ74W9ziHYGApjvnk77AIR6ukYBRo=" {};
     diskdev_cmds    = applePackage "diskdev_cmds"      "osx-10.11.6"     "sha256-VX+hcZ7JhOA8EhwLloPlM3Yx79RXp9OYHV9Mi10uw3Q=" {
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/darwin/apple-source-releases/versions.json b/pkgs/os-specific/darwin/apple-source-releases/versions.json
index 2c63c0851048..1b5d02c09599 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/darwin/apple-source-releases/versions.json
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/darwin/apple-source-releases/versions.json
@@ -1,2 +1,6 @@
 {
+  "adv_cmds": {
+    "hash": "sha256-Ztp8ALWcviEpthoiY8ttWzGI8OcsLzsULjlqe8GIzw8=",
+    "version": "163"
+  }
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/darwin-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/darwin-packages.nix
index 5317cab970fc..8c7fa67e5204 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/darwin-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/darwin-packages.nix
@@ -77,6 +77,8 @@ impure-cmds // appleSourcePackages // stubs // {
     extraBuildInputs = [];
   };
 
+  inherit (self.adv_cmds) locale ps;
+
   binutils-unwrapped = callPackage ../os-specific/darwin/binutils {
     inherit (pkgs) cctools;
     inherit (pkgs.llvmPackages) clang-unwrapped llvm llvm-manpages;