diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/ocaml/camlidl/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/ocaml/camlidl/default.nix
index 5c3153a8849..a97ce8499b2 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/ocaml/camlidl/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/ocaml/camlidl/default.nix
@@ -1,16 +1,17 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, fetchurl, ocaml, writeText }:
+{ lib, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, ocaml, writeText }:
+
+lib.throwIfNot (lib.versionAtLeast ocaml.version "4.03")
+  "camlidl is not available for OCaml ${ocaml.version}"
 
-let
-  pname = "camlidl";
-  webpage = "https://caml.inria.fr/pub/old_caml_site/camlidl/";
-in
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "${pname}-${version}";
-  version = "1.05";
+  pname = "ocaml${ocaml.version}-camlidl";
+  version = "1.11";
 
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "http://caml.inria.fr/pub/old_caml_site/distrib/bazar-ocaml/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "0483cs66zsxsavcllpw1qqvyhxb39ddil3h72clcd69g7fyxazl5";
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "xavierleroy";
+    repo = "camlidl";
+    rev = "camlidl111";
+    sha256 = "sha256-8m0zem/6nvpEJtjJNP/+vafeVLlMvNQGdl8lyf/OeBg=";
   };
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ ocaml ];
@@ -21,10 +22,10 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   preBuild = ''
     mv config/Makefile.unix config/Makefile
     substituteInPlace config/Makefile --replace BINDIR=/usr/local/bin BINDIR=$out
-    substituteInPlace config/Makefile --replace OCAMLLIB=/usr/local/lib/ocaml OCAMLLIB=$out/lib/ocaml/${ocaml.version}/site-lib/camlidl
-    substituteInPlace config/Makefile --replace CPP=/lib/cpp CPP=${stdenv.cc}/bin/cpp
-    substituteInPlace config/Makefile --replace "OCAMLC=ocamlc -g" "OCAMLC=ocamlc -g -warn-error -31"
+    substituteInPlace config/Makefile --replace 'OCAMLLIB=$(shell $(OCAMLC) -where)' OCAMLLIB=$out/lib/ocaml/${ocaml.version}/site-lib/camlidl
+    substituteInPlace config/Makefile --replace CPP=cpp CPP=${stdenv.cc}/bin/cpp
     mkdir -p $out/lib/ocaml/${ocaml.version}/site-lib/camlidl/caml
+    mkdir -p $out/lib/ocaml/${ocaml.version}/site-lib/camlidl/stublibs
   '';
 
   postInstall = ''
@@ -40,15 +41,14 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   '';
 
   setupHook = writeText "setupHook.sh" ''
-    export CAML_LD_LIBRARY_PATH="''${CAML_LD_LIBRARY_PATH-}''${CAML_LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+:}''$1/lib/ocaml/${ocaml.version}/site-lib/${name}/"
     export NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE+=" -isystem $1/lib/ocaml/${ocaml.version}/site-lib/camlidl"
     export NIX_LDFLAGS+=" -L $1/lib/ocaml/${ocaml.version}/site-lib/camlidl"
   '';
 
   meta = {
     description = "A stub code generator and COM binding for Objective Caml";
-    homepage = webpage;
-    license = "LGPL";
+    homepage = "https://xavierleroy.org/camlidl/";
+    license = lib.licenses.lgpl21;
     maintainers = [ lib.maintainers.roconnor ];
   };
 }