diff --git a/recipes/tksm/build.sh b/recipes/tksm/build.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+INSTALL_PREFIX="${PREFIX}" make -j${CPU_COUNT}
+mkdir -p ${PREFIX}/bin
+./install.sh
diff --git a/recipes/tksm/conda_build_config.yaml b/recipes/tksm/conda_build_config.yaml
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+cxx_compiler_version:
+  - "12" # [linux]
+  - "16" # [osx]
diff --git a/recipes/tksm/meta.yaml b/recipes/tksm/meta.yaml
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+{% set version = "0.3.0" %}
+{% set sha256 = "627f98512105ccec2c9b65900b33a907bb54ee3dc71495fc98edf4a2660d6420" %}
+
+package:
+  name: tksm
+  version: {{ version }}
+
+source:
+  - url: https://github.com/vpc-ccg/tksm/archive/v{{ version }}.zip
+    sha256: {{ sha256 }}
+
+build:
+  number: 0
+  skip: True  # [py<3.8 or osx]
+
+requirements:
+  build:
+    - {{ compiler('cxx') }}
+    - python {{ python }}
+    - zlib
+    - make
+    - vim
+    - lld
+  host:
+    - python {{ python }}
+    - zlib
+    - cxxopts >=3.1.0
+    - fmt >=9.1.0
+  run:
+    - python {{ python }}
+    - zlib
+    - python-edlib
+    - numpy
+    - joblib
+    - tqdm
+    - scikit-learn
+
+test:
+  commands:
+    - tksm sequence --help
+
+
+about:
+  home: https://github.com/vpc-ccg/tksm
+  license: MIT
+  license_file: LICENSE
+  summary: Very modular, very cool long-read transcriptomic simulator