diff --git a/Makefile.envs b/Makefile.envs
index 4a8d60017..7e9676b1b 100644
--- a/Makefile.envs
+++ b/Makefile.envs
@@ -150,13 +150,13 @@ export STDLIB_MODULE_CFLAGS= $(SIDE_MODULE_CFLAGS) -I Include/ -I . -I Include/i
 export CARGO_BUILD_TARGET=wasm32-unknown-emscripten
 export CARGO_TARGET_WASM32_UNKNOWN_EMSCRIPTEN_LINKER=emcc
 export RUST_TOOLCHAIN=nightly-2022-06-26
-
+export PYO3_CROSS_LIB_DIR=${CPYTHONINSTALL}/lib
+export PYO3_CROSS_INCLUDE_DIR=${PYTHONINCLUDE}
 
 # idealy we could automatically include all SIDE_MODULE_LDFLAGS here
 export RUSTFLAGS= \
 	-C link-arg=-sSIDE_MODULE=2 \
 	-C link-arg=-sWASM_BIGINT \
 	-Z link-native-libraries=no
-
 .output_vars:
 	set
diff --git a/docs/development/new-packages.md b/docs/development/new-packages.md
index edd1c8435..6c5d36cb3 100644
--- a/docs/development/new-packages.md
+++ b/docs/development/new-packages.md
@@ -389,3 +389,5 @@ but other than that there may be no other issues if you are lucky.
 As mentioned [here](https://github.com/pyodide/pyodide/issues/2706#issuecomment-1154655224),
 by default certain wasm-related `RUSTFLAGS` are set during `build.script`
 and can be removed with `export RUSTFLAGS=""`.
+
+If your project builds using maturin, you need to use maturin 0.14.14 or later. It is pretty easy to patch an existing project (see `projects/fastparquet/meta.yaml` for an example)
diff --git a/docs/project/changelog.md b/docs/project/changelog.md
index 8acdab990..92a92171a 100644
--- a/docs/project/changelog.md
+++ b/docs/project/changelog.md
@@ -140,6 +140,10 @@ myst:
   building dependencies of the package. This replaces `pyodide-build buildpkg`.
   {pr}`3520`
 
+### Packages
+
+- New packages: fastparquet {pr}`3590`, cramjam {pr}`3590`.
+
 ## Version 0.22.1
 
 _January 25, 2023_
diff --git a/packages/cramjam/meta.yaml b/packages/cramjam/meta.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a67877e41
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/cramjam/meta.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+package:
+  name: cramjam
+  version: 2.6.2
+  top-level:
+    - cramjam
+source:
+  url: https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/03/68/b6a79d363e2796012ad1f0aae9b452050509203e7b7b0ebb0eab97b2b48f/cramjam-2.6.2.tar.gz
+  sha256: 1ffdc8d1381b5fee57b33b537e38fa7fd29e8d8f3b544dbab1d71dbfaaec3bef
+  patches:
+    - patches/patch_maturin_version.patch
+about:
+  home: ""
+  PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/cramjam
+  summary: Thin Python bindings to de/compression algorithms in Rust
+  license: MIT
+build:
+  script: |
+    rustup toolchain install ${RUST_TOOLCHAIN} && rustup default ${RUST_TOOLCHAIN}
+    rustup target add wasm32-unknown-emscripten --toolchain ${RUST_TOOLCHAIN}
+test:
+  imports:
+    - cramjam
diff --git a/packages/cramjam/patches/patch_maturin_version.patch b/packages/cramjam/patches/patch_maturin_version.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..07be852a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/cramjam/patches/patch_maturin_version.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
+index bb317951..f67c19ec 100644
+--- a/pyproject.toml
++++ b/pyproject.toml
+@@ -9,5 +9,5 @@ documentation = "https://docs.rs/cramjam/latest/cramjam"
+ repository = "https://github.com/milesgranger/pyrus-cramjam"
+ 
+ [build-system]
+-requires = ["maturin>=0.13,<0.14"]
++requires = ["maturin>=0.14.14,<0.15"]
+ build-backend = "maturin"
diff --git a/packages/cramjam/test_cramjam.py b/packages/cramjam/test_cramjam.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..cfa386079
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/cramjam/test_cramjam.py
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+from typing import Any
+
+import pytest
+from pytest_pyodide import run_in_pyodide
+
+VARIANTS = ("snappy", "brotli", "bzip2", "lz4", "gzip", "deflate", "zstd")
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("variant_str", VARIANTS)
+@run_in_pyodide(packages=["cramjam"])
+def test_variants_simple(selenium, variant_str):
+    import random
+
+    import cramjam
+
+    uncompressed: Any = [random.getrandbits(8) for x in range(1048576)]
+    variant = getattr(cramjam, variant_str)
+
+    uncompressed = bytearray(uncompressed)
+
+    compressed = variant.compress(uncompressed)
+    assert compressed.read() != uncompressed
+    compressed.seek(0)
+    assert isinstance(compressed, cramjam.Buffer)
+
+    decompressed = variant.decompress(compressed, output_len=len(uncompressed))
+    assert decompressed.read() == uncompressed
+    assert isinstance(decompressed, cramjam.Buffer)
diff --git a/packages/fastparquet/meta.yaml b/packages/fastparquet/meta.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..969e9bbd6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/fastparquet/meta.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+package:
+  name: fastparquet
+  version: 2023.2.0
+  top-level:
+    - fastparquet
+requirements:
+  run:
+    - cramjam
+    - numpy
+    - pandas
+    - fsspec
+    - packaging
+source:
+  url: https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/7e/5d/c58795e5550231ce84b39fec783e3f4836082f0162e2436227832716ee02/fastparquet-2023.2.0.tar.gz
+  sha256: 7611447ce3ff5696539f7e43289da2491ea41f7cb92d4dbada374012b62c51c3
+about:
+  home: https://github.com/dask/fastparquet/
+  PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/fastparquet
+  summary: Python support for Parquet file format
+  license: Apache License 2.0
diff --git a/packages/fastparquet/test_fastparquet.py b/packages/fastparquet/test_fastparquet.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..89acf0605
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/fastparquet/test_fastparquet.py
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+import pytest
+from pytest_pyodide import run_in_pyodide
+
+COMPRESSIONS = ("SNAPPY", "GZIP", "LZ4", "BROTLI", "ZSTD")
+
+
+# just check that we can read and write random data
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("compression", COMPRESSIONS)
+@run_in_pyodide(packages=["fastparquet"])
+def test_simple_table(selenium, compression):
+    from pathlib import Path
+    from tempfile import TemporaryDirectory
+
+    import fastparquet
+    import numpy as np
+    import pandas as pd
+
+    df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randn(131072, 4), columns=list("ABCD"))
+    with TemporaryDirectory() as td:
+        name = Path(td) / "test.parquet"
+        fastparquet.write(name, df, compression=compression)
+        df2 = fastparquet.ParquetFile(name).to_pandas()
+        assert df2.equals(df)
diff --git a/packages/fsspec/meta.yaml b/packages/fsspec/meta.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..96922a01f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/fsspec/meta.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+package:
+  name: fsspec
+  version: 2023.1.0
+  top-level:
+    - fsspec
+source:
+  url: https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/bd/64/f0d369ede0ca54fdd520bdee5086dbaf0af81dac53a2ce847bd1ec6e0bf1/fsspec-2023.1.0-py3-none-any.whl
+  sha256: b833e2e541e9e8cde0ab549414187871243177feb3d344f9d27b25a93f5d8139
+about:
+  home: http://github.com/fsspec/filesystem_spec
+  PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/fsspec
+  summary: File-system specification
+  license: BSD
diff --git a/pyodide-build/pyodide_build/common.py b/pyodide-build/pyodide_build/common.py
index cde59b2b8..63232643c 100644
--- a/pyodide-build/pyodide_build/common.py
+++ b/pyodide-build/pyodide_build/common.py
@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ BUILD_VARS: set[str] = {
     "CARGO_BUILD_TARGET",
     "CARGO_TARGET_WASM32_UNKNOWN_EMSCRIPTEN_LINKER",
     "RUSTFLAGS",
+    "PYO3_CROSS_LIB_DIR",
+    "PYO3_CROSS_INCLUDE_DIR",
     "PYODIDE_EMSCRIPTEN_VERSION",
     "PLATFORM_TRIPLET",
     "SYSCONFIGDATA_DIR",
diff --git a/pyodide-build/pyodide_build/pypabuild.py b/pyodide-build/pyodide_build/pypabuild.py
index 30db24671..0d057aed3 100644
--- a/pyodide-build/pyodide_build/pypabuild.py
+++ b/pyodide-build/pyodide_build/pypabuild.py
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ def make_command_wrapper_symlinks(symlink_dir: Path) -> dict[str, str]:
             var = "CXX"
         else:
             var = symlink.upper()
-        env[var] = symlink
+        env[var] = str(symlink_path)
 
     return env
 
diff --git a/pyodide-build/pyodide_build/tools/pyo3_config.ini b/pyodide-build/pyodide_build/tools/pyo3_config.ini
index a91b4f9c6..799e184af 100644
--- a/pyodide-build/pyodide_build/tools/pyo3_config.ini
+++ b/pyodide-build/pyodide_build/tools/pyo3_config.ini
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 implementation=CPython
-version=3.10
+version=3.11
 shared=true
 abi3=false
-lib_name=python3.10
+lib_name=python3.11
 pointer_width=32
 suppress_build_script_link_lines=false