diff --git a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
index 61f4af42b403..1f9ceb1e0edc 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
@@ -5978,6 +5978,40 @@ final: prev: {
     }
   ) { };
 
+  tomlua = callPackage (
+    {
+      buildLuarocksPackage,
+      fetchurl,
+      fetchzip,
+      luaOlder,
+    }:
+    buildLuarocksPackage {
+      pname = "tomlua";
+      version = "1.1.5-1";
+      knownRockspec =
+        (fetchurl {
+          url = "mirror://luarocks/tomlua-1.1.5-1.rockspec";
+          sha256 = "0xqxlw1pzvy63kw8d98nfh0k9269s4dg90md72m8kfcrj7isrb6m";
+        }).outPath;
+      src = fetchzip {
+        url = "https://github.com/BirdeeHub/tomlua/archive/v1.1.5.zip";
+        sha256 = "136jxj26dk3jl17dm86ifvfmpfbj0mf6yp2yy6i8g4xxfqs27n9q";
+      };
+
+      disabled = luaOlder "5.1";
+
+      meta = {
+        homepage = "https://github.com/BirdeeHub/tomlua";
+        maintainers = [ lib.maintainers.birdee ];
+        license.fullName = "MIT";
+        description = "Speedy toml parsing for lua, implemented in C";
+        longDescription = ''
+          Speedy toml parsing for lua, implemented in C
+              for use in hot-path or startup-time parsing of toml files.'';
+      };
+    }
+  ) { };
+
   toml-edit = callPackage (
     {
       buildLuarocksPackage,
diff --git a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/overrides.nix b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/overrides.nix
index c77a212952f8..4022df1b5342 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/overrides.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/overrides.nix
@@ -1240,6 +1240,22 @@ in
     ];
   });
 
+  tomlua = prev.tomlua.overrideAttrs (old: {
+    postConfigure = ''
+      chmod +w "$rockspecFilename"
+      echo "deploy = { wrap_bin_scripts = false, }" >> "$rockspecFilename"
+    '';
+    checkPhase = ''
+      runHook preCheck
+      runHook postCheck
+    '';
+    installCheckPhase = ''
+      runHook preInstallCheck
+      make test
+      runHook postInstallCheck
+    '';
+  });
+
   tree-sitter-cli = prev.tree-sitter-cli.overrideAttrs (_: {
     # Keep this package hermetic: provide the already-packaged tree-sitter
     # binary instead of using the LuaRocks backend that downloads from GitHub.