diff --git a/recipes/readline/recipe.sh b/recipes/readline/recipe.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index 72dd391fb5df78643822be9d256ac1b9baaf3616..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/recipes/readline/recipe.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-VERSION=7.0
-TAR=http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/readline-$VERSION.tar.gz
-BUILD_DEPENDS=(ncurses)
-
-function recipe_version {
-    echo "$VERSION"
-    skip=1
-}
-
-function recipe_update {
-    echo "skipping update"
-    skip=1
-}
-
-function recipe_build {
-    sysroot="$(realpath ../sysroot)"
-    export LDFLAGS="-L$sysroot/lib"
-    export CFLAGS="-I$sysroot/include"
-    ./configure --disable-shared --build=${BUILD} --host=${HOST} --prefix=""
-    "$REDOX_MAKE" -j"$($NPROC)"
-    skip=1
-}
-
-function recipe_test {
-    echo "skipping test"
-    skip=1
-}
-
-function recipe_clean {
-    "$REDOX_MAKE" clean
-    skip=1
-}
-
-function recipe_stage {
-    dest="$(realpath $1)"
-    "$REDOX_MAKE" DESTDIR="$dest" install
-    rm -rf "$1"/share/{doc,info,man}
-    skip=1
-}
diff --git a/recipes/readline/recipe.toml b/recipes/readline/recipe.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b863fdc27e9a30ce7cc54f636ddd7edb3962ea19
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes/readline/recipe.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+[source]
+tar = "http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/readline-7.0.tar.gz"
+patches = [
+    "redox.patch"
+]
+
+[build]
+template = "configure"
+depends = [
+    "ncurses",
+]
diff --git a/recipes/readline/01-config-sub.patch b/recipes/readline/redox.patch
similarity index 100%
rename from recipes/readline/01-config-sub.patch
rename to recipes/readline/redox.patch