diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/st/stardust/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/st/stardust/package.nix
index 53d67ab628d0..f53096c5fc4d 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/st/stardust/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/st/stardust/package.nix
@@ -5,8 +5,7 @@
   zlib,
   libtiff,
   libxml2,
-  SDL,
-  xorgproto,
+  SDL_compat,
   libX11,
   libXi,
   libXmu,
@@ -15,21 +14,27 @@
   libGL,
 }:
 
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
   pname = "stardust";
   version = "0.1.13";
 
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = "http://iwar.free.fr/IMG/gz/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "19rs9lz5y5g2yiq1cw0j05b11digw40gar6rw8iqc7bk3s8355xp";
+    url = "http://iwar.free.fr/spip/IMG/gz/${finalAttrs.pname}-${finalAttrs.version}.tar.gz";
+    hash = "sha256-t5cykB5zHYYj4tlk9QDhL7YQVgEScBZw9OIVXz5NOqc=";
   };
 
+  strictDeps = true;
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    SDL_compat
+    libxml2
+  ];
   buildInputs = [
     zlib
     libtiff
     libxml2
-    SDL
-    xorgproto
+    SDL_compat
     libX11
     libXi
     libXmu
@@ -38,20 +43,23 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     libGL
   ];
 
-  installFlags = [ "bindir=\${out}/bin" ];
+  patches = [ ./pointer-fix.patch ];
+
+  installFlags = [ "bindir=${placeholder "out"}/bin" ];
 
   hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
 
   postConfigure = ''
     substituteInPlace config.h \
-      --replace '#define PACKAGE ""' '#define PACKAGE "stardust"'
+      --replace-fail '#define PACKAGE ""' '#define PACKAGE "stardust"'
   '';
 
-  meta = with lib; {
+  meta = {
     description = "Space flight simulator";
+    homepage = "http://iwar.free.fr/spip/rubrique2.html";
     mainProgram = "stardust";
-    maintainers = [ maintainers.raskin ];
-    platforms = platforms.linux;
-    license = licenses.gpl2Plus;
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ raskin ];
+    platforms = lib.platforms.linux;
+    license = lib.licenses.gpl2Plus;
   };
-}
+})
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/st/stardust/pointer-fix.patch b/pkgs/by-name/st/stardust/pointer-fix.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..0dece3c2039e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/st/stardust/pointer-fix.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+diff --git a/src/obj.c b/src/obj.c
+index 66d528b..ab08a4f 100644
+--- a/src/obj.c
++++ b/src/obj.c
+@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ static short intnpar(char *line, int mode, struct face *face) {
+  */
+ #define ALLOC_MORE 100
+ GLuint obj_load(Obj *object, const char *obj_file) {
+-  gzFile *gzp = NULL;
++  gzFile gzp = NULL;
+   char line[1024], command[1024];
+ 
+   char filename_mtl[256] = "\0";