diff --git a/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv b/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv
index a9aceb6cf07a..c0e89206328a 100644
--- a/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv
+++ b/maintainers/scripts/luarocks-packages.csv
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 ansicolors,
 argparse,
+basexx,
 dkjson
 fifo
 inspect
diff --git a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
index 46b84403f8c6..e168d9fd53c6 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/lua-modules/generated-packages.nix
@@ -50,6 +50,26 @@ argparse = buildLuarocksPackage {
     };
   };
 };
+basexx = buildLuarocksPackage {
+  pname = "basexx";
+  version = "0.4.0-1";
+
+  src =  fetchurl {
+      url    = https://luarocks.org/basexx-0.4.0-1.src.rock;
+      sha256 = "1px8yrxg1qkk3kzdqj3siry742jdv4ysp2dmicxi15mkynqpjlzz";
+   };
+  disabled = ( luaOlder "5.1");
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [lua  ];
+  buildType="builtin";
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "https://github.com/aiq/basexx";
+    description="A base2, base16, base32, base64 and base85 library for Lua";
+    license = {
+      fullName = "MIT";
+    };
+  };
+};
 dkjson = buildLuarocksPackage {
   pname = "dkjson";
   version = "2.5-2";
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/lua-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/lua-packages.nix
index 66a699db0f5a..84918b1d8b57 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/lua-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/lua-packages.nix
@@ -100,32 +100,6 @@ with self; {
 
   luarocks-nix = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/luarocks/luarocks-nix.nix { };
 
-  basexx = buildLuaPackage rec {
-    version = "0.4.0";
-    name = "basexx-${version}";
-
-    src = fetchFromGitHub {
-      owner = "aiq";
-      repo = "basexx";
-      rev = "v${version}";
-      sha256 = "12y0ng9bp5b98iax35pnp0kc0mb42spv1cbywvfq6amik6l0ya7g";
-    };
-
-    buildPhase = ":";
-    installPhase = ''
-      install -Dt "$out/lib/lua/${lua.luaversion}/" \
-        lib/basexx.lua
-    '';
-
-    meta = with stdenv.lib; {
-      description = "Lua library for base2, base16, base32, base64, base85";
-      homepage = "https://github.com/aiq/basexx";
-      license = licenses.mit;
-      maintainers = with maintainers; [ vcunat ];
-      platforms = platforms.all;
-    };
-  };
-
   bit32 = buildLuaPackage rec {
     version = "5.3.0";
     name = "bit32-${version}";