diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/darwin/apple-sdk-11.0/default.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/darwin/apple-sdk-11.0/default.nix
index fe0d0ca63ea9..a02445adb33b 100644
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/darwin/apple-sdk-11.0/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/darwin/apple-sdk-11.0/default.nix
@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ let
     Libsystem = callPackage ./libSystem.nix { };
     LibsystemCross = pkgs.darwin.Libsystem;
     libcharset = callPackage ./libcharset.nix { };
+    libcompression = callPackage ./libcompression.nix { };
     libunwind = callPackage ./libunwind.nix { };
     libnetwork = callPackage ./libnetwork.nix { };
     libpm = callPackage ./libpm.nix { };
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/darwin/apple-sdk-11.0/libcompression.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/darwin/apple-sdk-11.0/libcompression.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..92a45b7c5a50
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/os-specific/darwin/apple-sdk-11.0/libcompression.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+{ stdenvNoCC, buildPackages, MacOSX-SDK }:
+
+let self = stdenvNoCC.mkDerivation {
+  pname = "libcompression";
+  version = MacOSX-SDK.version;
+
+  dontUnpack = true;
+  dontBuild = true;
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    mkdir -p $out/lib
+    cp ${MacOSX-SDK}/usr/lib/libcompression* $out/lib
+  '';
+
+  passthru = {
+    tbdRewrites = {
+      const."/usr/lib/libcompression.dylib" = "${self}/lib/libcompression.dylib";
+    };
+  };
+}; in self