diff --git a/pkgs/applications/graphics/giv/build.patch b/pkgs/applications/graphics/giv/build.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index f57689fd3fa9..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/graphics/giv/build.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-Get the environment propagated to scons forked childs, and correct the dicom plugin about
-a typedef of size_t that failed at least on x86_64-linux.
-
-diff --git a/SConstruct b/SConstruct
-index 9e752d6..f93f27f 100644
---- a/SConstruct
-+++ b/SConstruct
-@@ -9,13 +9,7 @@ else:
- 
- commit_id = os.popen('git rev-parse HEAD').read().replace('\n','')
- 
--env = Environment(LIBPATH=[],
--                  CPPFLAGS = cppflags + ['-Wno-deprecated-declarations',
--                                         '-Wno-reorder',
--                                         '-Wno-unused-but-set-variable',
--                                         '-Wno-unused-function'],
--                  CXXFLAGS=['-std=c++1y']
--                  )
-+env = Environment(ENV = os.environ)
- 
- env['SBOX'] = False
- env['COMMITIDSHORT'] = commit_id[0:6]
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/graphics/giv/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/graphics/giv/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 9ba7dbed37b3..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/graphics/giv/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, gdk-pixbuf, scons, pkgconfig, gtk2, glib
-, pcre, cfitsio, perl, gob2, vala, libtiff, json-glib }:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  pname = "giv";
-  version = "0.9.26";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "dov";
-    repo = "giv";
-    rev = "v${version}";
-    sha256 = "1sfm8j3hvqij6z3h8xz724d7hjqqbzljl2a6pp4yjpnnrxksnic2";
-  };
-
-  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
-
-  prePatch = ''
-    sed -i s,/usr/bin/perl,${perl}/bin/perl, doc/eperl
-    sed -i s,/usr/local,$out, SConstruct
-  '';
-
-  patches = [ ./build.patch ];
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ scons pkgconfig vala perl gob2 ];
-  buildInputs = [ gdk-pixbuf gtk2 glib pcre cfitsio libtiff json-glib ];
-
-  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
-    description = "Cross platform image and hierarchical vector viewer based";
-    homepage = http://giv.sourceforge.net/giv/;
-    license = licenses.gpl2Plus;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ ];
-    platforms = with platforms; linux;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 2e8b13c687e4..7121166cb663 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -18432,8 +18432,6 @@ in
 
   inherit (gnome3) gitg;
 
-  giv = callPackage ../applications/graphics/giv { };
-
   gmrun = callPackage ../applications/misc/gmrun {};
 
   gnucash = callPackage ../applications/office/gnucash {