diff --git a/manifest.dhall b/manifest.dhall
index 0ceef1725d53d707585dd12e3dcf1fdac6f8d7cd..097d50ae7471f28e9d2f5af1675f82e62b8bbc88 100644
--- a/manifest.dhall
+++ b/manifest.dhall
@@ -268,6 +268,7 @@ in  [ callHackage "Cabal" "3.8.1.0"
         (Some "918df757ce5c9244232c1e3a1e05e9d9e3ab4f09")
         (None Text)
     , callHackage "hslua-aeson" "2.2.1"
+    , callHackage "hslua-core" "2.2.1"
     , callHackage "hslua-classes" "2.2.0"
     , callHackage "hslua-marshalling" "2.2.1"
     , callHackage "hslua" "2.2.1"
diff --git a/overlay.nix b/overlay.nix
index 917851d03098648f696a0b069b630bf6b413d3ff..aa05d99e7d5baacfb60969579929866796f68106 100644
--- a/overlay.nix
+++ b/overlay.nix
@@ -311,6 +311,8 @@ final: prev: with pkgs.haskell.lib; {
 
   hslua-classes = prev.callPackage (./pkgs/hslua-classes.nix) { };
 
+  hslua-core = prev.callPackage (./pkgs/hslua-core.nix) { };
+
   hslua-marshalling = prev.callPackage (./pkgs/hslua-marshalling.nix) { };
 
   hspec = prev.callPackage (./pkgs/hspec.nix) { };
diff --git a/pkgs/hslua-core.nix b/pkgs/hslua-core.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..16701cd5765d5d11cb69b690886e10f3e981b132
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/hslua-core.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+{ mkDerivation
+, base
+, bytestring
+, exceptions
+, lib
+, lua
+, lua-arbitrary
+, mtl
+, QuickCheck
+, quickcheck-instances
+, tasty
+, tasty-hunit
+, tasty-quickcheck
+, text
+}:
+mkDerivation {
+  pname = "hslua-core";
+  version = "2.2.1";
+  sha256 = "78e5e12130fe9ae195e576ed5a391f82f2665b39d377a881640b9064f351c343";
+  isLibrary = true;
+  isExecutable = false;
+  enableSeparateDataOutput = false;
+  libraryHaskellDepends = [
+    base
+    bytestring
+    exceptions
+    lua
+    mtl
+    text
+  ];
+  testHaskellDepends = [
+    base
+    bytestring
+    exceptions
+    lua
+    lua-arbitrary
+    mtl
+    QuickCheck
+    quickcheck-instances
+    tasty
+    tasty-hunit
+    tasty-quickcheck
+    text
+  ];
+  enableLibraryProfiling = false;
+  enableExecutableProfiling = false;
+  doHaddock = false;
+  jailbreak = true;
+  doCheck = false;
+  doBenchmark = false;
+  hyperlinkSource = false;
+  homepage = "https://hslua.org/";
+  description = "Bindings to Lua, an embeddable scripting language";
+  license = lib.licenses.mit;
+  broken = false;
+}