diff --git a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/sodium/default.nix b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/sodium/default.nix
index ee9b90d4603f..5d8154565806 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/sodium/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/sodium/default.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 { stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, ocaml, findlib, ocamlbuild, ctypes, libsodium }:
 
+if stdenv.lib.versionAtLeast ocaml.version "4.10"
+then throw "sodium is not available for OCaml ${ocaml.version}"
+else
+
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "ocaml${ocaml.version}-sodium";
   version = "0.6.0";