diff --git a/gnu/packages/guile.scm b/gnu/packages/guile.scm
index 15d5b2cdf2..d0caba7834 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/guile.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/guile.scm
@@ -856,6 +856,9 @@ Guile's foreign function interface.")
     (home-page "https://notabug.org/guile-zlib/guile-zlib")
     (license license:gpl3+)))
 
+(define-public guile2.2-zlib
+  (package-for-guile-2.2 guile-zlib))
+
 (define-public guile-lzlib
   (package
     (name "guile-lzlib")