diff --git a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/ocaml-lua/default.nix b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/ocaml-lua/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8a09b1d9387e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/ocaml-lua/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+{ lib, fetchFromGitHub, buildDunePackage, lua5_1, pkg-config }:
+
+buildDunePackage {
+  pname = "ocaml-lua";
+  version = "1.8";
+
+  minimalOCamlVersion = "4.08";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "pdonadeo";
+    repo = "ocaml-lua";
+    # Take the latest commit, as some warnings have been fixed/suppressed
+    rev = "f44ad50c88bf999f48a13af663051493c89d7d02";
+    hash = "sha256-AXtKrty8JdI+yc+Y9EiufBbySlr49OyXW6wKwmDb0xo=";
+  };
+
+  # ocaml-lua vendors and builds Lua: replace that with the one from nixpkgs
+  postPatch = ''
+    rm -r src/lua_c
+    substituteInPlace src/dune \
+      --replace "-Ilua_c/lua515/src" "" \
+      --replace "(libraries unix threads lua_c)" \
+                "(libraries unix threads) (c_library_flags -llua)"
+  '';
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config ];
+  buildInputs = [ lua5_1 ];
+
+  doCheck = true;
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Lua bindings for OCaml";
+    homepage = "https://pdonadeo.github.io/ocaml-lua";
+    license = lib.licenses.mit;
+    maintainers = [ lib.maintainers.kenran ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/ocaml-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/ocaml-packages.nix
index 9513160a476c..2feeb0cade56 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/ocaml-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/ocaml-packages.nix
@@ -1233,6 +1233,8 @@ let
 
     ocaml-lsp = callPackage ../development/ocaml-modules/ocaml-lsp { };
 
+    ocaml-lua = callPackage ../development/ocaml-modules/ocaml-lua { };
+
     ocaml_lwt = lwt;
 
     ocaml-migrate-parsetree = ocaml-migrate-parsetree-1-8;