diff --git a/recipes/barcodex-rs/build.sh b/recipes/barcodex-rs/build.sh
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+#!/bin/bash -euo
+export CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -fcommon"
+export CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -fcommon"
+
+# Add workaround for SSH-based Git connections from Rust/cargo.  See https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/2078 for details.
+# We set CARGO_HOME because we don't pass on HOME to conda-build, thus rendering the default "${HOME}/.cargo" defunct.
+export CARGO_NET_GIT_FETCH_WITH_CLI=true CARGO_HOME="$(pwd)/.cargo"
+
+# build statically linked binary with Rust
+RUST_BACKTRACE=1 cargo install --verbose --root $PREFIX --path .
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diff --git a/recipes/barcodex-rs/meta.yaml b/recipes/barcodex-rs/meta.yaml
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+{% set version = "0.1.3" %}
+{% set sha256 = "6271a95289c6d987d652983db071b36d41d49ab14ad9afe7a2f0a52a9f55191d" %}
+
+package:
+  name: barcodex-rs
+  version: {{ version }}
+
+source:
+  url: https://github.com/MatthiasZepper/barcodex-rs/archive/refs/tags/v{{ version }}.tar.gz
+  sha256: {{ sha256 }}
+
+build:
+  number: 0
+
+requirements:
+  build:
+    - rust >=1.40
+    - cmake
+    - make
+    - autoconf
+    - {{ compiler('cxx') }}
+    - pkg-config
+    - zlib
+  host:
+    - zlib
+  run:
+
+
+test:
+  commands:
+    - barcodex-rs --help
+
+about:
+  home: https://github.com/oicr-gsi/barcodex-rs
+  license: MIT
+  license_family: MIT
+  summary: Extract Unique Molecular Identifiers (UMIs) from single or paired-end read sequences.