diff --git a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/sodium/default.nix b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/sodium/default.nix
index 74983fef3e77..87fb82adcbeb 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/sodium/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/sodium/default.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 { lib, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, ocaml, findlib, ocamlbuild, ctypes, libsodium }:
 
+lib.throwIf (lib.versionAtLeast ocaml.version "5.0")
+  "sodium is not available for OCaml ${ocaml.version}"
+
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "ocaml${ocaml.version}-sodium";
   version = "0.6.0";