diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs/elisp-packages/manual-packages.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs/elisp-packages/manual-packages.nix
index dd3820116c42..1b06e1596c5a 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs/elisp-packages/manual-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs/elisp-packages/manual-packages.nix
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ lib.packagesFromDirectoryRecursive {
       ;
   };
 
+  lua = callPackage ./manual-packages/lua { inherit (pkgs) lua; };
+
   straight = callPackage ./manual-packages/straight { inherit (pkgs) git; };
 
   structured-haskell-mode = self.shm;
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs/elisp-packages/manual-packages/lua/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs/elisp-packages/manual-packages/lua/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..31b1613e722e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs/elisp-packages/manual-packages/lua/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+{
+  lib,
+  lua,
+  melpaBuild,
+  pkg-config,
+  fetchFromGitHub,
+  unstableGitUpdater,
+}:
+
+melpaBuild {
+  pname = "lua";
+  version = "0-unstable-2025-01-27";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "syohex";
+    repo = "emacs-lua";
+    rev = "501189b5fc069fcead8843b2b0ad510c08de1397";
+    hash = "sha256-psCrto12p03R9XxPtDYTMB5vcRVWj+Blq7D30nLsSbU=";
+  };
+
+  preBuild = ''
+    make LUA_VERSION=${lua.luaversion} CC=$CC LD=$CC
+  '';
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkg-config ];
+
+  buildInputs = [ lua ];
+
+  files = ''(:defaults "lua-core.so")'';
+
+  passthru.updateScript = unstableGitUpdater { };
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://github.com/syohex/emacs-lua";
+    description = "Lua engine from Emacs Lisp";
+    license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ nagy ];
+  };
+}