diff --git a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/faillib/default.nix b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/faillib/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..98acc8032e3f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/faillib/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+{stdenv, buildOcaml, fetchurl, herelib, camlp4}:
+
+buildOcaml rec {
+  minimumSupportedOcamlVersion = "4.00";
+  name = "faillib";
+  version = "111.17.00";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "https://github.com/janestreet/faillib/archive/${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "12dvaxkmgf7yzzvbadcyk1n17llgh6p8qr33867d21npaljy7l9v"; 
+  };
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ camlp4 herelib ];
+
+  doCheck = true;
+  checkPhase = "make test";
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = https://ocaml.janestreet.com/;
+    description = "Library for dealing with failure in OCaml";
+    license = licenses.asl20;
+    maintainers = [ maintainers.maurer ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 2d4577efd4cf..9ff13ba10c40 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -4326,6 +4326,8 @@ let
       lwt = ocaml_lwt;
     };
 
+    faillib = callPackage ../development/ocaml-modules/faillib { };
+
     fieldslib = callPackage ../development/ocaml-modules/fieldslib { };
 
     fileutils = callPackage ../development/ocaml-modules/fileutils { };