diff --git a/recipes/libpng b/recipes/libpng
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes/libpng
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+name=libpng
+revision=1
+from_source=libpng
+imagedeps="base-devel"
+hostdeps="gcc-cross binutils-cross"
+deps="mlibc zlib"
+
+
+configure() {
+	
+	${source_dir}/configure --host=x86_64-astral --prefix=${prefix} --disable-static
+
+}
+
+build() {
+	
+	make -j${parallelism}
+
+}
+
+install() {
+
+	make install DESTDIR="${dest_dir}"
+
+}
diff --git a/source-recipes/libpng b/source-recipes/libpng
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+name=libpng
+version=1.6.37
+source_method=tarball
+tarball_url="https://downloads.sourceforge.net/libpng/libpng-${version}.tar.xz"
+tarball_sha512=59e8c1059013497ae616a14c3abbe239322d3873c6ded0912403fc62fb260561768230b6ab997e2cccc3b868c09f539fd13635616b9fa0dd6279a3f63ec7e074
+hostdeps="autoconf automake libtool pkgconfig"
+regenerate() {
+        autoreconf -vfi
+}