diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/charls/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/charls/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..e7b8a54820e3e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/charls/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+{ lib, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, cmake }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  pname = "charls";
+  version = "2.4.1";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "team-charls";
+    repo = pname;
+    rev = "refs/tags/${version}";
+    hash = "sha256-l0qcJeQfRqpwR7vNmYZx00kGlPkK7nEYuslydjxj7ss=";
+  };
+
+  postPatch = ''
+    substituteInPlace src/charls-template.pc  \
+      --replace '$'{prefix}/@CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR@ @CMAKE_INSTALL_FULL_LIBDIR@  \
+      --replace '$'{prefix}/@CMAKE_INSTALL_INCLUDEDIR@ @CMAKE_INSTALL_FULL_INCLUDEDIR@
+  '';
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake ];
+
+  cmakeFlags = [ "-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON" ];
+
+  # note this only runs some basic tests, not the full test suite,
+  # but the recommended `charlstest -unittest` fails with an inscrutable C++ IO error
+  doCheck = true;
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://github.com/team-charls/charls";
+    description = "A JPEG-LS library implementation in C++";
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ bcdarwin ];
+    license = licenses.bsd3;
+    platforms = platforms.unix;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index f33f49a051fc2..39972ac4bad08 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -18865,6 +18865,8 @@ with pkgs;
 
   cgui = callPackage ../development/libraries/cgui {};
 
+  charls = callPackage ../development/libraries/charls { };
+
   check = callPackage ../development/libraries/check {
     inherit (darwin.apple_sdk.frameworks) CoreServices;
   };