diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/rocksdb/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/rocksdb/default.nix
index 71b3442409eb137..bb36d942a69b88f 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/rocksdb/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/rocksdb/default.nix
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 { stdenv
 , fetchFromGitHub
 , fixDarwinDylibNames
-, hostPlatform, lib
-, which, perl, cmake
+, which, perl
 
 # Optional Arguments
 , snappy ? null, google-gflags ? null, zlib ? null, bzip2 ? null, lz4 ? null
@@ -12,7 +11,6 @@
 , jemalloc ? null, gperftools ? null
 
 , enableLite ? false
-, windows
 }:
 
 let
@@ -32,58 +30,50 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "15x2r7aib1xinwcchl32wghs8g96k4q5xgv6z97mxgp35475x01p";
   };
 
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ which perl snappy google-gflags ];
-  buildInputs = [ zlib bzip2 malloc fixDarwinDylibNames ] # lz4 ];
-             ++ lib.optional (hostPlatform.libc == "msvcrt") [ windows.mingw_w64_pthreads windows.mingw_w64_headers ];
-  crossAttrs = {
-    nativeBuildInputs = [ which perl snappy google-gflags cmake ];
-  };
-
-#  cmakeFlags = "-DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++ ";
-  cmakeFlags = "-DCMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME=Windows -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS=-std=c++11 -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS=-pthread";
-  buildFlags = "rocksdb VERBOSE=1 -j1";
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ which perl ];
+  buildInputs = [ snappy google-gflags zlib bzip2 lz4 malloc fixDarwinDylibNames ];
 
-  # postPatch = ''
-  #   # Hack to fix typos
-  #   sed -i 's,#inlcude,#include,g' build_tools/build_detect_platform
-  # '';
+  postPatch = ''
+    # Hack to fix typos
+    sed -i 's,#inlcude,#include,g' build_tools/build_detect_platform
+  '';
 
-  # # Environment vars used for building certain configurations
+  # Environment vars used for building certain configurations
   PORTABLE = "1";
   USE_SSE = "1";
-  #CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS = "-std=c++11 -pthread -pthreads";
-  # JEMALLOC_LIB = stdenv.lib.optionalString (malloc == jemalloc) "-ljemalloc";
-
-  # LIBNAME = "librocksdb${stdenv.lib.optionalString enableLite "_lite"}";
-  # ${if enableLite then "CXXFLAGS" else null} = "-DROCKSDB_LITE=1";
-
-  # buildAndInstallFlags = [
-  #   "USE_RTTI=1"
-  #   "DEBUG_LEVEL=0"
-  #   "DISABLE_WARNING_AS_ERROR=1"
-  # ];
-
-  # buildFlags = buildAndInstallFlags ++ [
-  #   "shared_lib"
-  #   "static_lib"
-  # ] ++ tools ;
-
-  # installFlags = buildAndInstallFlags ++ [
-  #   "INSTALL_PATH=\${out}"
-  #   "install-shared"
-  #   "install-static"
-  # ];
-
-  # postInstall = ''
-  #   # Might eventually remove this when we are confident in the build process
-  #   echo "BUILD CONFIGURATION FOR SANITY CHECKING"
-  #   cat make_config.mk
-  #   mkdir -pv $static/lib/
-  #   mv -vi $out/lib/${LIBNAME}.a $static/lib/
-
-  #   install -d ''${!outputBin}/bin
-  #   install -D ${stdenv.lib.concatStringsSep " " tools} ''${!outputBin}/bin
-  # '';
+  CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS = "-std=gnu++11";
+  JEMALLOC_LIB = stdenv.lib.optionalString (malloc == jemalloc) "-ljemalloc";
+
+  LIBNAME = "librocksdb${stdenv.lib.optionalString enableLite "_lite"}";
+  ${if enableLite then "CXXFLAGS" else null} = "-DROCKSDB_LITE=1";
+
+  buildAndInstallFlags = [
+    "USE_RTTI=1"
+    "DEBUG_LEVEL=0"
+    "DISABLE_WARNING_AS_ERROR=1"
+  ];
+
+  buildFlags = buildAndInstallFlags ++ [
+    "shared_lib"
+    "static_lib"
+  ] ++ tools ;
+
+  installFlags = buildAndInstallFlags ++ [
+    "INSTALL_PATH=\${out}"
+    "install-shared"
+    "install-static"
+  ];
+
+  postInstall = ''
+    # Might eventually remove this when we are confident in the build process
+    echo "BUILD CONFIGURATION FOR SANITY CHECKING"
+    cat make_config.mk
+    mkdir -pv $static/lib/
+    mv -vi $out/lib/${LIBNAME}.a $static/lib/
+
+    install -d ''${!outputBin}/bin
+    install -D ${stdenv.lib.concatStringsSep " " tools} ''${!outputBin}/bin
+  '';
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;