diff --git a/flake.nix b/flake.nix
index 301e65545..2263ea572 100644
--- a/flake.nix
+++ b/flake.nix
@@ -474,45 +474,10 @@
 
             hardeningDisable = lib.optional stdenv.hostPlatform.isStatic "pie";
 
-            passthru.perl-bindings = with final; perl.pkgs.toPerlModule (currentStdenv.mkDerivation {
-              name = "nix-perl-${version}";
-
-              src = fileset.toSource {
-                root = ./.;
-                fileset = fileset.intersect baseFiles (fileset.unions [
-                  ./perl
-                  ./.version
-                  ./m4
-                  ./mk
-                ]);
-              };
-
-              nativeBuildInputs =
-                [ buildPackages.autoconf-archive
-                  buildPackages.autoreconfHook
-                  buildPackages.pkg-config
-                ];
-
-              buildInputs =
-                [ nix
-                  curl
-                  bzip2
-                  xz
-                  pkgs.perl
-                  boost
-                ]
-                ++ lib.optional (currentStdenv.isLinux || currentStdenv.isDarwin) libsodium
-                ++ lib.optional currentStdenv.isDarwin darwin.apple_sdk.frameworks.Security;
-
-              configureFlags = [
-                "--with-dbi=${perlPackages.DBI}/${pkgs.perl.libPrefix}"
-                "--with-dbd-sqlite=${perlPackages.DBDSQLite}/${pkgs.perl.libPrefix}"
-              ];
-
-              enableParallelBuilding = true;
-
-              postUnpack = "sourceRoot=$sourceRoot/perl";
-            });
+            passthru.perl-bindings = final.callPackage ./perl {
+              inherit fileset;
+              stdenv = currentStdenv;
+            };
 
             meta.platforms = lib.platforms.unix;
           });
diff --git a/perl/default.nix b/perl/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4687976a1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/perl/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+{ lib, fileset
+, stdenv
+, perl, perlPackages
+, autoconf-archive, autoreconfHook, pkg-config
+, nix, curl, bzip2, xz, boost, libsodium, darwin
+}:
+
+perl.pkgs.toPerlModule (stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "nix-perl-${nix.version}";
+
+  src = fileset.toSource {
+    root = ../.;
+    fileset = fileset.unions [
+      ../.version
+      ../m4
+      ../mk
+      ./MANIFEST
+      ./Makefile
+      ./Makefile.config.in
+      ./configure.ac
+      ./lib
+      ./local.mk
+    ];
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs =
+    [ autoconf-archive
+      autoreconfHook
+      pkg-config
+    ];
+
+  buildInputs =
+    [ nix
+      curl
+      bzip2
+      xz
+      perl
+      boost
+    ]
+    ++ lib.optional (stdenv.isLinux || stdenv.isDarwin) libsodium
+    ++ lib.optional stdenv.isDarwin darwin.apple_sdk.frameworks.Security;
+
+  configureFlags = [
+    "--with-dbi=${perlPackages.DBI}/${perl.libPrefix}"
+    "--with-dbd-sqlite=${perlPackages.DBDSQLite}/${perl.libPrefix}"
+  ];
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  postUnpack = "sourceRoot=$sourceRoot/perl";
+})