diff --git a/recipes/archives/lz4/recipe.toml b/recipes/archives/lz4/recipe.toml
index bd1763e5..1aacf826 100644
--- a/recipes/archives/lz4/recipe.toml
+++ b/recipes/archives/lz4/recipe.toml
@@ -6,13 +6,10 @@ patches = ["redox.patch"]
 [build]
 template = "custom"
 script = """
+DYNAMIC_INIT
 rsync -av --delete "${COOKBOOK_SOURCE}/" ./
-
-# No configure provided
-COOKBOOK_CONFIGURE="true"
-COOKBOOK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS=""
-
 export CPPFLAGS="${CPPFLAGS} -D_REDOX"
 
-cookbook_configure 
+${COOKBOOK_MAKE}
+${COOKBOOK_MAKE} install DESTDIR="${COOKBOOK_STAGE}" prefix="/usr"
 """
diff --git a/recipes/archives/zstd/recipe.toml b/recipes/archives/zstd/recipe.toml
index e42573e0..90684850 100644
--- a/recipes/archives/zstd/recipe.toml
+++ b/recipes/archives/zstd/recipe.toml
@@ -9,4 +9,5 @@ script = """
 DYNAMIC_INIT
 rsync -av --delete "${COOKBOOK_SOURCE}/" ./
 ${COOKBOOK_MAKE}
+${COOKBOOK_MAKE} install DESTDIR="${COOKBOOK_STAGE}" prefix="/usr"
 """
diff --git a/recipes/net/rsync/recipe.toml b/recipes/net/rsync/recipe.toml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4a967f27
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes/net/rsync/recipe.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+[source]
+tar = "https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/src/rsync-3.4.1.tar.gz"
+patches = ["redox.patch"]
+
+[build]
+template = "configure"
+dependencies = [
+    "zstd",
+    "lz4",
+    "openssl1",
+    "xxhash",
+]
diff --git a/recipes/net/rsync/redox.patch b/recipes/net/rsync/redox.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..07a929b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes/net/rsync/redox.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+diff -ruwN source/rsync.h source-new/rsync.h
+--- source/rsync.h	2025-01-16 02:21:54.000000000 +0700
++++ source-new/rsync.h	2025-09-08 12:18:06.427647717 +0700
+@@ -483,6 +483,21 @@
+ #include <sys/sysmacros.h>
+ #endif
+ 
++#ifdef __redox__
++
++// no sys/sysmacros.h, probably no problem
++#include <sys/types.h>
++#define major(dev) (0)
++#define minor(dev) (0)
++#define makedev(maj, min) (0)
++
++// no openat yet
++#undef O_NOFOLLOW
++#undef O_DIRECTORY
++#undef AT_FDCWD
++
++#endif
++
+ #ifdef MAKEDEV_TAKES_3_ARGS
+ #define MAKEDEV(devmajor,devminor) makedev(0,devmajor,devminor)
+ #else
diff --git a/recipes/wip/dev/lang/go/recipe.toml b/recipes/wip/dev/lang/go/recipe.toml
index 97b80f53..20dd03b5 100644
--- a/recipes/wip/dev/lang/go/recipe.toml
+++ b/recipes/wip/dev/lang/go/recipe.toml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#TODO: Can be built, but ends in breakpoint trap
+#TODO compiling, not tested further
 [source]
 git = "https://github.com/willnode/go"
 branch = "go-1.25-redox"
diff --git a/recipes/wip/dev/lang/zig/recipe.toml b/recipes/wip/dev/lang/zig/recipe.toml
index 90ceedba..5c9d26f7 100644
--- a/recipes/wip/dev/lang/zig/recipe.toml
+++ b/recipes/wip/dev/lang/zig/recipe.toml
@@ -1,20 +1,22 @@
-#TODO probably wrong script, see https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/Building-Zig-From-Source
+#TODO compiling, not tested further
 [source]
-tar = "https://ziglang.org/download/0.10.1/zig-0.10.1.tar.xz"
+git = "https://github.com/willnode/zig"
+branch = "zig-0.15-redox"
+
 [build]
 template = "custom"
 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
-"${COOKBOOK_SOURCE}"
-)
-cookbook_configure
+DYNAMIC_INIT
+rsync -av --delete "${COOKBOOK_SOURCE}"/* ./
+
+export ZIG_HOST_TARGET_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
+export ZIG_HOST_TARGET_LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS"
+export ZIG_HOST_TARGET_CC="${TARGET}-gcc"
+export ZIG_HOST_TARGET_TRIPLE="${TARGET%%-*}-redox"
+unset AR AS CC CXX LD LDFLAGS NM OBJCOPY OBJDUMP RANLIB READELF RUSTFLAGS STRIP
+cc bootstrap.c -o ./bootstrap
+./bootstrap
+
+mkdir -p "${COOKBOOK_STAGE}"/usr/bin
+cp ./zig2 "${COOKBOOK_STAGE}"/usr/bin/zig
 """
diff --git a/recipes/wip/libs/other/xxhash/recipe.toml b/recipes/wip/libs/other/xxhash/recipe.toml
index 20f05653..902e1347 100644
--- a/recipes/wip/libs/other/xxhash/recipe.toml
+++ b/recipes/wip/libs/other/xxhash/recipe.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
-#TODO missing script for building, lacking build instructions
+#TODO promote
 [source]
 git = "https://github.com/Cyan4973/xxHash"
-rev = "bbb27a5efb85b92a0486cf361a8635715a53f6ba"
+rev = "bab7e27f4c6ae4efbb83dd99ae8a554423571635" # 0.8.3-dev (cmake support)
 [build]
 template = "custom"
+script = """
+DYNAMIC_INIT
+COOKBOOK_SOURCE="${COOKBOOK_SOURCE}"/build/cmake
+cookbook_cmake
+"""
diff --git a/recipes/wip/net/other/rsync/recipe.toml b/recipes/wip/net/other/rsync/recipe.toml
deleted file mode 100644
index e5dcf210..00000000
--- a/recipes/wip/net/other/rsync/recipe.toml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-#TODO make all dependencies work
-[source]
-tar = "https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/src/rsync-3.2.7.tar.gz"
-[build]
-template = "configure"
-dependencies = [
-    "zstd",
-    "zlib",
-    "lz4",
-    "popt",
-    "xxhash",
-]