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+{ stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, libtool, zip, libffi, libsigsegv, readline, gmp,
+gnutls, gnome, cairo, SDL, sqlite, emacsSupport ? false, emacs ? null }:
+
+assert emacsSupport -> (emacs != null);
+
+let # The gnu-smalltalk project has a dependency to the libsigsegv library.
+    # The project ships with sources for this library, but deprecated this option.
+    # Using the vanilla libsigsegv library results in error: "cannot relocate [...]"
+    # Adding --enable-static=libsigsegv to the gnu-smalltalk configuration flags
+    # does not help, the error still occurs. The only solution is to build a
+    # shared version of libsigsegv.
+    libsigsegv-shared = stdenv.lib.overrideDerivation libsigsegv (oldAttrs: {
+      configureFlags = [ "--enable-shared" ];
+    });
+
+in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+
+  version = "3.2.5";
+  name = "gnu-smalltalk-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://gnu/smalltalk/smalltalk-${version}.tar.xz";
+    sha256 = "1k2ssrapfzhngc7bg1zrnd9n2vyxp9c9m70byvsma6wapbvib6l1";
+  };
+
+  # The dependencies and their justification are explained at
+  # http://smalltalk.gnu.org/download
+  buildInputs = [
+    pkgconfig libtool zip libffi libsigsegv-shared readline gmp gnutls gnome.gtk
+    cairo SDL sqlite
+  ]
+  ++ stdenv.lib.optional emacsSupport emacs;
+
+  configureFlags = stdenv.lib.optional (!emacsSupport) "--without-emacs";
+
+  installFlags = stdenv.lib.optional emacsSupport "lispdir=$(out)/share/emacs/site-lisp";
+
+  # For some reason the tests fail if executated with nix-build, but pass if
+  # executed within nix-shell --pure.
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "A free implementation of the Smalltalk-80 language";
+    longDescription = ''
+      GNU Smalltalk is a free implementation of the Smalltalk-80 language. It
+      runs on most POSIX compatible operating systems (including GNU/Linux, of
+      course), as well as under Windows. Smalltalk is a dynamic object-oriented
+      language, well-versed to scripting tasks.
+    '';
+    homepage = http://smalltalk.gnu.org/;
+    license = with licenses; [ gpl2 lgpl2 ];
+    platforms = platforms.linux;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ skeidel ];
+  };
+}