diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/compile-daemon/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/compile-daemon/default.nix
index 79f5a447888..959beea1fbc 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/compile-daemon/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/compile-daemon/default.nix
@@ -1,26 +1,25 @@
-{ lib, buildGoPackage, fetchFromGitHub }:
+{ lib, buildGoModule, fetchFromGitHub }:
 
-buildGoPackage rec {
-  pname = "compile-daemon-unstable";
-  version = "2017-03-08";
-  rev = "d447e567232bcb84cedd3b2be012c7127f31f469";
-
-  goPackagePath = "github.com/githubnemo/CompileDaemon";
+buildGoModule rec {
+  pname = "compile-daemon";
+  version = "1.4.0";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "githubnemo";
     repo = "CompileDaemon";
-    inherit rev;
-    sha256 = "0jfbipp3gd89n6d7gds1qvfkqvz80qdlqqhijxffh8z8ss0xinqc";
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    sha256 = "sha256-gpyXy7FO7ZVXJrkzcKHFez4S/dGiijXfZ9eSJtNlm58=";
   };
 
-  goDeps = ./deps.nix;
+  vendorSha256 = "sha256-UDPOeg8jQbDB+Fr4x6ehK7UyQa8ySZy6yNxS1xotkgA=";
+
+  ldflags = [ "-s" "-w" ];
 
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "Very simple compile daemon for Go";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/githubnemo/CompileDaemon";
     license = licenses.bsd2;
     maintainers = with maintainers; [ ];
     mainProgram = "CompileDaemon";
-    inherit (src.meta) homepage;
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/compile-daemon/deps.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/compile-daemon/deps.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 53771ddad9f..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/compile-daemon/deps.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,48 +0,0 @@
-# This file was generated by https://github.com/kamilchm/go2nix v1.2.0-devel
-[
-  {
-    goPackagePath = "github.com/fatih/color";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://github.com/fatih/color";
-      rev = "9131ab34cf20d2f6d83fdc67168a5430d1c7dc23";
-      sha256 = "111x6rhpxfjhwkjrmrirqqh6nc68q5g7air9fl5kgr3bg85hybr5";
-    };
-  }
-  {
-    goPackagePath = "github.com/mattn/go-colorable";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://github.com/mattn/go-colorable";
-      rev = "a392f450ea64cee2b268dfaacdc2502b50a22b18";
-      sha256 = "1msiq5nb1sdhwfjv65hjnvr2s4pfsp8mv6f5z8aa8n9bjf0cksyc";
-    };
-  }
-  {
-    goPackagePath = "github.com/mattn/go-isatty";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://github.com/mattn/go-isatty";
-      rev = "57fdcb988a5c543893cc61bce354a6e24ab70022";
-      sha256 = "1fkhmi3nhz6vasfvjzjjwxkbpwsb9hzc0g5h1rygqrnzjykl2r39";
-    };
-  }
-  {
-    goPackagePath = "golang.org/x/sys";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://go.googlesource.com/sys";
-      rev = "99f16d856c9836c42d24e7ab64ea72916925fa97";
-      sha256 = "0g2x5krfhnraq03v0b48y3xv3ffg92pbgvps0npj9l7wq8q9hkmx";
-    };
-  }
-  {
-    goPackagePath = "gopkg.in/fsnotify.v1";
-    fetch = {
-      type = "git";
-      url = "https://gopkg.in/fsnotify.v1";
-      rev = "629574ca2a5df945712d3079857300b5e4da0236";
-      sha256 = "06wfg1mmzjj04z7d0q1x2fai9k6hm957brngsaf02fa9a3qqanv3";
-    };
-  }
-]