diff --git a/recipes/imlib2 b/recipes/imlib2
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+name=imlib2
+revision=1
+from_source=imlib2
+imagedeps="base-devel"
+hostdeps="xgcc xbinutils libtool pkgconfig"
+deps="base freetype libx11 libice libpng libjpeg-turbo bzip2 zlib libxext"
+
+build() {
+	${source_dir}/configure --host=x86_64-astral --prefix=${prefix} --disable-static
+	make -j${parallelism}
+}
+
+package() {
+	make install DESTDIR="${dest_dir}"
+}
diff --git a/recipes/xfishtank b/recipes/xfishtank
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+name=xfishtank
+revision=1
+from_source=xfishtank
+imagedeps="base-devel imake"
+hostdeps="xgcc xbinutils libtool pkgconfig"
+deps="base imlib2"
+
+build() {
+	# the build system sucks, so we will directly call the compiler and ignore it!
+	cp -rp ${source_dir}/* .
+
+	gcc makeh.c -o makeh
+
+	./makeh fishmaps/?*.h > xfishy.h
+	x86_64-astral-gcc -Dlinux -I./fishmaps -lX11 -lImlib2 -lm xfish.c medcut.c -o xfishtank
+}
+
+package() {
+	mkdir -p ${dest_dir}/usr/bin/
+	cp -v xfishtank ${dest_dir}/usr/bin/xfishtank
+}
diff --git a/source-recipes/imlib2 b/source-recipes/imlib2
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+++ b/source-recipes/imlib2
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+name=imlib2
+version=1.12.3
+source_method=tarball
+tarball_url="https://downloads.sourceforge.net/enlightenment/imlib2-${version}.tar.xz"
+tarball_sha512=79feea73fb67508ffdce52f8430c2c887b06d8bcb70f6e3bc551c86d521ebf61fc1eff10994b69def4d7a237873f107066aefa367e05b5f89b5d675751d9314f
+hostdeps="autoconf automake libtool pkgconfig"
+regenerate() {
+        autoreconf -vfi
+}
diff --git a/source-recipes/xfishtank b/source-recipes/xfishtank
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+++ b/source-recipes/xfishtank
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+name=xfishtank
+version=0
+source_method=tarball
+tarball_url="https://github.com/sydneyjd/xfishtank/archive/63022c8877710cefa7e4815dda8bd6ae50557fb5.tar.gz"
+tarball_sha512=1ef1e0b89cc3fbe3d9a246509dac158d1663d784e302be7e3e28baf52205a11d83a5a0b4170ccef1e8befb49e013177a7480b2ae0e87953129b19d75723d0b81
+
+regenerate() {
+        true
+}