diff --git a/recipes/irssi b/recipes/irssi
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+name=irssi
+revision=1
+from_source=irssi
+imagedeps="build-essential"
+hostdeps="xgcc xbinutils pkgconfig libtool"
+deps="base perl openssl ncurses glib"
+
+configure() {
+	meson --cross-file ${base_dir}/util/crossfile --prefix=${prefix} --buildtype=release ${source_dir}
+}
+
+build() {
+	ninja -j${parallelism}
+}
+
+package() {
+	DESTDIR=${dest_dir} ninja install
+}
diff --git a/source-recipes/irssi b/source-recipes/irssi
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+name=irssi
+version=1.4.5
+source_method=tarball
+tarball_url="https://github.com/irssi/irssi/releases/download/${version}/irssi-${version}.tar.gz"
+tarball_sha512="6569dc786e31f0a9b62a2adf9235b3d168bbf2684a79b7666baacdea3c8e82397c0b2b708cc6e29438d2158d4b323f2de1643794d6a4ed92423dda81800955cf"