diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/lucene++/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/lucene++/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..74c7b5e72613
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/lucene++/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, fetchpatch, cmake, boost, gtest }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "lucene++-${version}";
+  version = "3.0.6";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "https://github.com/luceneplusplus/LucenePlusPlus/"
+        + "archive/rel_${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "068msvh05gsbfj1wwdqj698kxxfjdqy8zb6pqvail3ayjfj94w1y";
+  };
+
+  patches = let
+    baseurl = "https://github.com/luceneplusplus/LucenePlusPlus";
+  in [
+    (fetchpatch {
+      url = "${baseurl}/pull/62.diff";
+      sha256 = "0v314877mjb0hljg4mcqi317m1p1v27rgsgf5wdr9swix43vmhgw";
+    })
+    (fetchpatch {
+      url = "${baseurl}/commit/994f03cf736229044a168835ae7387696041658f.diff";
+      sha256 = "0fcm5b87nxw062wjd7b4qrfcwsyblmcw19s64004pklj9grk30zz";
+    })
+  ];
+
+  postPatch = ''
+    sed -i -e '/Subversion *REQUIRED/d' \
+           -e '/include.*CMakeExternal/d' \
+           CMakeLists.txt
+    # not using -f because we want it to fail for the next release
+    rm CMakeExternal.txt
+  '';
+
+  cmakeFlags = [ "-DGTEST_INCLUDE_DIR=${gtest}/include" ];
+  buildInputs = [ cmake boost gtest ];
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+  doCheck = true;
+  checkTarget = "test";
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "C++ port of the popular Java Lucene search engine";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/luceneplusplus/LucenePlusPlus";
+    license = with stdenv.lib.licenses; [ asl20 lgpl3Plus ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 90bc51933e0e..18e7455eb10b 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -7198,6 +7198,8 @@ let
 
   lucene = callPackage ../development/libraries/java/lucene { };
 
+  lucenepp = callPackage ../development/libraries/lucene++ { };
+
   mockobjects = callPackage ../development/libraries/java/mockobjects { };
 
   saxon = callPackage ../development/libraries/java/saxon { };