diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 28c117d4..54297fd5 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ full:
 	cd sysroot; tar -cf $(INITRD) *
 
 minimal:
-	./jinx install minimalsysroot mlibc
+	./jinx install minimalsysroot mlibc bash coreutils
 	cd minimalsysroot; tar -cf $(INITRD) *
 
 kernel:
diff --git a/recipes/binutils b/recipes/binutils
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..cbcede0c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes/binutils
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+name=binutils
+revision=1
+from_source=binutils
+imagedeps="base-devel"
+hostdeps="xgcc xbinutils automake autoconf"
+deps="mlibc"
+
+configure() {
+	${source_dir}/configure --host=x86_64-astral --target=x86_64-astral --prefix=${prefix} --disable-werror
+}
+
+build() {
+	make -j${parallelism}
+}
+
+install() {
+	make install DESTDIR="${dest_dir}"
+}