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+{ lib, stdenv, fetchurl }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  pname = "dyncall";
+  version = "1.4";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "https://www.dyncall.org/r${version}/dyncall-${version}.tar.gz";
+    # https://www.dyncall.org/r1.4/SHA256
+    sha256 = "sha256-FEN9u+87bckkg/ZQfq+CWrl5ZKie7K6Ms0emvsnDKq4=";
+  };
+
+  # XXX: broken tests, failures masked, lets avoid crashing a bunch for now :)
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  # install bits not automatically installed
+  postInstall = ''
+    # install cmake modules to make using dyncall easier
+    # This is essentially what -DINSTALL_CMAKE_MODULES=ON if using cmake build
+    # We don't use the cmake-based build since it installs different set of headers
+    # (mostly fewer headers, but installs dyncall_alloc_wx.h "instead" dyncall_alloc.h)
+    # and we'd have to patch the cmake module installation to not use CMAKE_ROOT anyway :).
+    install -D -t $out/lib/cmake ./buildsys/cmake/Modules/Find*.cmake
+
+    # manpages are nice, install them
+    # doing this is in the project's "ToDo", so check this when updating!
+    install -D -t $out/share/man/man3 ./*/*.3
+  '';
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Highly dynamic multi-platform foreign function call interface library";
+    homepage = "https://www.dyncall.org";
+    license = licenses.isc;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ dtzWill ];
+  };
+}