diff --git a/host-recipes/autoconf b/host-recipes/autoconf
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..addbe571
--- /dev/null
+++ b/host-recipes/autoconf
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+name=autoconf
+revision=1
+from_source=autoconf
+imagedeps="gcc"
+
+configure() {
+	${source_dir}/configure --prefix="${prefix}"
+}
+
+build() {
+	make -j${parallelism}
+}
+
+install() {
+	make install DESTDIR="${dest_dir}"
+}
diff --git a/host-recipes/autoconf-archive b/host-recipes/autoconf-archive
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..16878487
--- /dev/null
+++ b/host-recipes/autoconf-archive
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+name=autoconf-archive
+revision=1
+from_source=autoconf-archive
+imagedeps="gcc"
+
+configure() {
+	${source_dir}/configure --prefix=${prefix}
+}
+
+build() {
+	make -j${parallelism}
+}
+
+install() {
+	make install DESTDIR="${dest_dir}"
+}
diff --git a/host-recipes/automake b/host-recipes/automake
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1025398f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/host-recipes/automake
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+name=automake
+revision=1
+from_source=automake
+imagedeps="gcc"
+hostdeps="autoconf"
+
+configure() {
+	${source_dir}/configure --prefix=${prefix}
+}
+
+build() {
+	make -j${parallelism}
+}
+
+install() {
+	 DESTDIR="${dest_dir}" make install
+}
diff --git a/host-recipes/libstdc++-v3 b/host-recipes/libstdc++-v3
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..81580e40
--- /dev/null
+++ b/host-recipes/libstdc++-v3
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+name=libstdc++-v3
+revision=1
+from_source=gcc
+imagedeps="base-devel"
+hostdeps="automake autoconf xbinutils xgcc"
+deps="mlibc"
+
+configure() {
+	true
+}
+
+build() {
+	cd ${base_dir}/host-builds/xgcc
+	make all-target-libstdc++-v3 -j7
+}
+
+install(){
+	cd ${base_dir}/host-builds/xgcc
+	make DESTDIR="${dest_dir}" install-target-libstdc++-v3
+}
diff --git a/host-recipes/libtool b/host-recipes/libtool
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..376d65b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/host-recipes/libtool
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+name=libtool
+revision=1
+from_source=libtool
+hostdeps="autoconf automake"
+imagedeps="gcc help2man"
+
+
+configure() {
+	cp -pr ${source_dir}/* .
+	./configure --prefix=${prefix}	
+}
+
+build() {
+	
+	make -j${parallelism}
+
+}
+
+install() {
+
+	make install DESTDIR="${dest_dir}"
+
+}
+
diff --git a/host-recipes/limine b/host-recipes/limine
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9694f0dc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/host-recipes/limine
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+name=limine
+from_source=limine
+revision=1
+imagedeps="base-devel mtools nasm"
+
+configure() {
+	# check here for target in order to build aarch64 targets if ever ported
+	"${source_dir}/configure" --enable-bios-cd --enable-bios-pxe --enable-bios --enable-uefi-ia32 --enable-uefi-x86-64 --enable-uefi-cd --prefix="${prefix}"
+}
+
+build() {
+	make -j${parallelism}
+}
+
+install() {
+	make install DESTDIR=${dest_dir}
+}
diff --git a/host-recipes/pkgconfig b/host-recipes/pkgconfig
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..bb613462
--- /dev/null
+++ b/host-recipes/pkgconfig
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+name=pkgconfig
+revision=1
+from_source=pkgconfig
+imagedeps="gcc base-devel"
+
+
+configure() {
+	
+	${source_dir}/configure --prefix=${prefix}
+	
+}
+
+build() {
+	
+	make -j${parallelism}
+
+}
+
+install() {
+
+	make install DESTDIR="${dest_dir}"
+	mkdir -p ${dest_dir}${prefix}/share/pkgconfig/personality.d
+	
+	cat > ${dest_dir}${prefix}/share/pkgconfig/personality.d/x86_64-astral.personality << EOF
+Triplet: x86_64-astral
+SysrootDir: ${sysroot_dir}
+DefaultSearchPaths: ${sysroot_dir}/usr/lib/pkgconfig:${sysroot_dir}/usr/share/pkgconfig
+SystemIncludePaths: ${sysroot_dir}/usr/include
+SystemLibraryPaths: ${sysroot_dir}/usr/lib
+EOF
+
+	ln -s pkgconf ${dest_dir}${prefix}/bin/x86_64-astral-pkg-config
+
+}
+
diff --git a/host-recipes/xbinutils b/host-recipes/xbinutils
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a36a1495
--- /dev/null
+++ b/host-recipes/xbinutils
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+name=xbinutils
+revision=1
+from_source=binutils
+imagedeps="base-devel gcc"
+hostdeps="automake autoconf"
+
+configure() {
+	${source_dir}/configure --target=x86_64-astral --prefix=${prefix} --with-sysroot=${sysroot_dir} --disable-werror
+}
+
+build() {
+	make -j${parallelism}
+}
+
+install() {
+	make install DESTDIR="${dest_dir}"
+}
diff --git a/host-recipes/xgcc b/host-recipes/xgcc
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0009c689
--- /dev/null
+++ b/host-recipes/xgcc
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+name=xgcc
+revision=1
+from_source=gcc
+imagedeps="base-devel"
+hostdeps="automake autoconf xbinutils pkgconfig"
+deps="mlibc-headers"
+
+configure() {
+	${source_dir}/configure --target=x86_64-astral --prefix=${prefix} --with-sysroot=${sysroot_dir} --enable-languages=c,c++ -enable-threads=posix --disable-multilib
+}
+
+build() {
+	make all-gcc all-target-libgcc -j ${parallelism}
+}
+
+install(){
+	make DESTDIR="${dest_dir}" install-gcc install-target-libgcc
+}