diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/li/libdht/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/li/libdht/package.nix
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+{
+  lib,
+  stdenv,
+  fetchFromGitHub,
+}:
+stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
+  pname = "libdht";
+  version = "0.28";
+  __structuredAttrs = true;
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "jech";
+    repo = "dht";
+    tag = "dht-${finalAttrs.version}";
+    hash = "sha256-ThatRVb+ykOvYbpEj7gr9iDbQKE2BSBAChEb5EqH9Fc=";
+  };
+
+  strictDeps = true;
+
+  # Upstream ships a Makefile that builds a test binary, not a
+  # library, so build the shared object directly. dht.c leaves four
+  # symbols for the application to supply; -shared allows that.
+  buildPhase = ''
+    runHook preBuild
+    $CC $NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE -fPIC -Wall -c -o dht.o dht.c
+    $CC -shared -Wl,-soname,libdht.so.0 -o libdht.so.0 dht.o
+    runHook postBuild
+  '';
+
+  # No install target in upstream's Makefile either.
+  installPhase = ''
+    runHook preInstall
+    install -Dm755 libdht.so.0 $out/lib/libdht.so.0
+    ln -s libdht.so.0 $out/lib/libdht.so
+    install -Dm644 dht.h $out/include/dht/dht.h
+    runHook postInstall
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "BitTorrent DHT library";
+    homepage = "https://www.irif.fr/~jch/software/bittorrent/";
+    license = lib.licenses.mit;
+    platforms = lib.platforms.unix;
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [
+      dvn0
+    ];
+  };
+})