diff --git a/recipes/wip/libs/lua/lpeg/recipe.toml b/recipes/wip/libs/lua/lpeg/recipe.toml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2f9fd4132
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes/wip/libs/lua/lpeg/recipe.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+[source]
+tar = "https://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/lpeg-1.1.0.tar.gz"
+
+[build]
+template = "custom"
+dependencies = [
+    "lua54",
+]
+script = """
+rsync -av --delete "${COOKBOOK_SOURCE}/" ./
+make linux
+mkdir -p ${COOKBOOK_STAGE}/usr/lib
+cp *.so ${COOKBOOK_STAGE}/usr/lib
+"""
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/recipes/wip/libs/other/libtickit/recipe.toml b/recipes/wip/libs/other/libtickit/recipe.toml
index bc3f10189..f20edf87f 100644
--- a/recipes/wip/libs/other/libtickit/recipe.toml
+++ b/recipes/wip/libs/other/libtickit/recipe.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,15 @@
 #TODO missing script for building, see https://github.com/leonerd/libtickit
 [source]
-tar = "https://www.leonerd.org.uk/code/libtickit/libtickit-0.4.3.tar.gz"
+tar = "https://www.leonerd.org.uk/code/libtickit/libtickit-0.4.5.tar.gz"
 [build]
 template = "custom"
+dependencies = [
+    "ncursesw"
+]
+script = """
+DYNAMIC_INIT
+rsync -av --delete "${COOKBOOK_SOURCE}/" ./
+
+"${COOKBOOK_MAKE}" -j "${COOKBOOK_MAKE_JOBS}"
+"${COOKBOOK_MAKE}" install-inc install-lib DESTDIR="${COOKBOOK_STAGE}"
+"""
diff --git a/recipes/wip/libs/other/libvterm/recipe.toml b/recipes/wip/libs/other/libvterm/recipe.toml
index cf68b3dce..4deb0f1dd 100644
--- a/recipes/wip/libs/other/libvterm/recipe.toml
+++ b/recipes/wip/libs/other/libvterm/recipe.toml
@@ -2,4 +2,12 @@
 [source]
 tar = "https://launchpad.net/libvterm/trunk/v0.3/+download/libvterm-0.3.3.tar.gz"
 [build]
-template = "configure"
+template = "custom"
+script = """
+DYNAMIC_INIT
+
+rsync -av --delete "${COOKBOOK_SOURCE}/" ./
+
+${COOKBOOK_MAKE} -j ${COOKBOOK_MAKE_JOBS} install \
+  PREFIX="${COOKBOOK_STAGE}"
+"""
diff --git a/recipes/wip/libs/other/termcap/recipe.toml b/recipes/wip/libs/other/termcap/recipe.toml
index d63ea82f2..77eadc226 100644
--- a/recipes/wip/libs/other/termcap/recipe.toml
+++ b/recipes/wip/libs/other/termcap/recipe.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
-#TODO non-sense "permission denied" error
+#TODO need testing
 [source]
 tar = "https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/termcap/termcap-1.3.1.tar.gz"
 [build]
-template = "configure"
+template = "custom"
+script = """
+COOKBOOK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS+=(
+    --prefix="${COOKBOOK_STAGE}/usr"
+)
+cookbook_configure
+"""
diff --git a/recipes/wip/libs/other/tree-sitter/recipe.toml b/recipes/wip/libs/other/tree-sitter/recipe.toml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..63295a445
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes/wip/libs/other/tree-sitter/recipe.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+[source]
+tar = "https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/archive/refs/tags/v0.25.8.tar.gz"
+
+[build]
+template = "custom"
+script = """
+DYNAMIC_INIT
+PACKAGE_PATH=cli cookbook_cargo
+"""
diff --git a/recipes/wip/text/neovim/recipe.toml b/recipes/wip/text/neovim/recipe.toml
index 205af461b..abd43b7ba 100644
--- a/recipes/wip/text/neovim/recipe.toml
+++ b/recipes/wip/text/neovim/recipe.toml
@@ -1,29 +1,13 @@
 #TODO probably wrong script, see https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/Installing-Neovim#install-from-source
 [source]
-git = "https://github.com/neovim/neovim"
-rev = "d772f697a281ce9c58bf933997b87c7f27428a60"
+tar = "https://github.com/neovim/neovim/archive/refs/tags/v0.11.3.tar.gz"
+
 [build]
-template = "custom"
+template = "cmake"
 dependencies = [
-    "luajit",
-    "gettext",
-    "less",
+    "lua54",
+    "libiconv",
     "libuv",
-    "libvterm",
-    "libtickit",
+    "luv",
+    "lpeg",
 ]
-script = """
-    COOKBOOK_CONFIGURE="cmake"
-    COOKBOOK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS=(
-    -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
-    -DCMAKE_CROSSCOMPILING=True
-    -DCMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS="-static"
-    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="/"
-    -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="${COOKBOOK_SYSROOT}"
-    -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME=Generic
-    -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR="$(echo "${TARGET}" | cut -d - -f1)"
-    -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=On
-"${COOKBOOK_SOURCE}"
-)
-cookbook_configure
-"""