diff --git a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/bin.nix b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/bin.nix
index c843cdb554ff..e115c7d436a2 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/bin.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/bin.nix
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
   unzip,
   buildPackages,
   texlive,
+  gnum4,
+  jdk_headless,
   zlib,
   libiconv,
   libpng,
@@ -791,6 +793,60 @@ rec {
     enableParallelBuilding = true;
   };
 
+  # tex4ht.jar
+  # we build this as a TeX package, but under texlive.bin to avoid exposing it in texlivePackages
+  tex4htJar = stdenv.mkDerivation {
+    pname = "tex4ht-jar";
+    inherit (texlive.pkgs.tex4ht) meta version;
+
+    outputs = [ "tex" ];
+
+    src = texlive.pkgs.tex4ht.texsource + "/source/generic/tex4ht";
+
+    nativeBuildInputs = [
+      gnum4
+      jdk_headless
+      (texlive.schemes.texliveBasic.withPackages (ps: [
+        # override tex4ht-jar with an empty package to avoid a self dependency
+        { pname = "tex4ht-jar"; }
+        ps.protex
+        ps.tex4ht
+      ]))
+    ];
+
+    preHook = ''
+      export out="$tex"
+    '';
+
+    # the current Makefile is broken, so we build the artifact by hand
+    # we also use latex instead of htlatex as the latter is orders of magnitude slower
+    buildPhase = ''
+      make tex4ht-dir.tex
+
+      mkdir -p work.dir/src/tex4ht
+      for f in *-xtpipes.tex ; do
+        latex -output-directory=work.dir/src/tex4ht "\\RequirePackage{tex4ht}\\input $f"
+      done
+
+      mkdir -p work.dir/src/xtpipes
+      latex -output-directory=work.dir/src/xtpipes "\\RequirePackage{tex4ht}\\input xtpipes.tex"
+
+      mkdir -p work.dir/src/xtpipes/util
+      mv work.dir/src/xtpipes/xtpipes.java.java work.dir/src/xtpipes.java
+      mv work.dir/src/xtpipes/ScriptsManager*.java work.dir/src/xtpipes/util
+
+      mkdir -p xtpipes.dir/xtpipes/lib
+      cp work.dir/src/xtpipes/xtpipes*.{4xt,dtd} xtpipes.dir/xtpipes/lib
+
+      javac -d xtpipes.dir work.dir/src/{*,*/*,*/*/*}.java
+      jar cf tex4ht.dir/texmf/tex4ht/bin/tex4ht.jar -C xtpipes.dir .
+    '';
+
+    installPhase = ''
+      install -D -t "$tex"/tex4ht/bin tex4ht.dir/texmf/tex4ht/bin/tex4ht.jar
+    '';
+  };
+
 } # un-indented
 
 //
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/default.nix
index d2acf9ca03e0..a5d81fbbaa7c 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/default.nix
@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@
   luajit,
   texinfo,
   # for bin.nix
+  gnum4,
+  jdk_headless,
   perlPackages,
   python3Packages,
   pkg-config,
@@ -225,7 +227,7 @@ let
         inherit mirrors pname;
         fixedHashes = fixedHashes."${pname}-${toString revision}${extraRevision}" or { };
       }
-      // lib.optionalAttrs (args ? deps) { deps = map (n: tl.${n}) (args.deps or [ ]); }
+      // lib.optionalAttrs (args ? deps) { deps = map (n: tl.${n} or bin.${n}) (args.deps or [ ]); }
     )
   ) overriddenTlpdb;
 
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/fixed-hashes.nix b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/fixed-hashes.nix
index 389642652d96..e51554358faa 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/fixed-hashes.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/fixed-hashes.nix
@@ -17603,7 +17603,7 @@
     doc = "0np84cifjrc9ls39gvnf0pfmyr2azbmkjng68wf22mpbbax0vblj";
   };
   tex4ht-77991 = {
-    run = "1brpxgcxrn8x45rnxd2mi9fjjlifafrd5d9naghxd12h36i5xz50";
+    run = "1g06wmrnj8psqyby6nq53m0wavs0pcl8wllyhms6jyc1vnya9in7";
     doc = "04z1bsgy3lisx7ifskxzna5jcbjkbwwjlqfwbfppnmjp5rwphxdv";
     source = "1fvgpz4r686f86hf8mjj31724dcr1l9s02nirfn01fjlxq9fkpkm";
   };
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/tlpdb-overrides.nix b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/tlpdb-overrides.nix
index 44cbfa33fa2c..2eb1eec2366f 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/tlpdb-overrides.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/tlpdb-overrides.nix
@@ -555,6 +555,13 @@ lib.recursiveUpdate orig rec {
 
   #### misc
 
+  # replace tex4ht.jar with our rebuilt version
+  tex4ht.deps = (orig.tex4ht.deps or [ ]) ++ [ "tex4htJar" ];
+  tex4ht.postUnpack = ''
+    [[ ! -d "$out"/tex4ht/bin ]] || rm -fr "$out"/tex4ht/bin
+  '';
+  tex4ht.hasJar = false;
+
   # Use top-level git-latexdiff's version and src. NOTE that this derivation is
   # still different from top-level's `git-latexdiff`, due to __structuredAttrs
   # enabled unconditionally. Still though this derivation produces a funcitonal