diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 76a4e1a..e36b37c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ jobs:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v2
       with:
         fetch-depth: 0
+        submodules: true
 
     - uses: actions/setup-python@v2
       with:
@@ -47,13 +48,13 @@ jobs:
       run: |
         brew install ninja
 
-    - name: Prepare compiler environment for ${{ matrix.os }}
+    - name: Prepare build environment for ${{ matrix.os }}
       if: runner.os == 'Windows'
       uses: ilammy/msvc-dev-cmd@v1
       with:
         arch: x64
 
-    - name: Set have package true for ${{ matrix.os }}
+    - name: Set GITHUB_ENV vars for ${{ matrix.os }}
       if: runner.os == 'Linux'
       run: |
         echo "HAVE_LIBDATRIE_PKG=TRUE" >> $GITHUB_ENV
@@ -67,8 +68,6 @@ jobs:
         packages: libdatrie-dev pybind11-dev ninja-build
 
     - name: Test in place
-      # windows does not like build_ext -i or removing previous build
-      if: runner.os != 'Windows'
       run: |
         tox -e py
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/conda.yml b/.github/workflows/conda.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2cfc7d1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/conda.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+name: Conda
+
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+  #pull_request:
+  #push:
+  #  branches:
+  #    - master
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        platform: [ubuntu-latest, windows-2016, macos-latest]
+        python-version: [3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9]
+
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.platform }}
+
+    # The setup-miniconda action needs this to activate miniconda
+    defaults:
+      run:
+        shell: "bash -l {0}"
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+          submodules: true
+
+      - name: Cache conda
+        uses: actions/cache@v1
+        with:
+          path: ~/conda_pkgs_dir
+          key: ${{matrix.os}}-conda-pkgs-${{hashFiles('**/conda.recipe/meta.yaml')}}
+
+      - name: Get conda
+        uses: conda-incubator/setup-miniconda@v2
+        with:
+          python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+          channels: conda-forge
+          channel-priority: strict
+          use-only-tar-bz2: true
+          auto-activate-base: true
+
+      - name: Prepare
+        run: conda install conda-build conda-verify pytest hypothesis
+
+      - name: Build
+        run: conda build conda.recipe
+
+      - name: Install
+        run: conda install -c ${CONDA_PREFIX}/conda-bld/ datrie
+
+      - name: Test
+        run: pytest -v
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 5892b9f..3921b46 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v2
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
+          submodules: true
 
       - uses: actions/setup-python@v2
         name: Install Python
diff --git a/.github/workflows/wheels.yml b/.github/workflows/wheels.yml
index fe7d296..ee9bc97 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/wheels.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/wheels.yml
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v2
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
+          submodules: true
 
       - uses: actions/setup-python@v2
         name: Install Python
diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3986f13
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+[submodule "libdatrie"]
+	path = libdatrie
+	url = https://github.com/tlwg/libdatrie.git
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 18e2530..1050543 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.15...3.18)
 
 option(PY_DEBUG "Set if python being linked is a Py_DEBUG build" OFF)
+option(GIT_SUBMODULE "Check submodules during build" ON)
 option(USE_LIBDATRIE_PKG "Use OS-provided libdatrie package")
 if(DEFINED ENV{HAVE_LIBDATRIE_PKG})
   set(USE_LIBDATRIE_PKG "$ENV{HAVE_LIBDATRIE_PKG}")
@@ -30,17 +31,26 @@ if(USE_LIBDATRIE_PKG AND NOT Datrie_FOUND)
 endif()
 
 if(NOT USE_LIBDATRIE_PKG)
-  message(STATUS "Fetching libdatrie from github")
-  # Fetch libdatrie
-  include(FetchContent)
+  message(STATUS "Trying libdatrie submodule")
+  find_package(Git QUIET)
+  if(GIT_FOUND AND EXISTS "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/.git")
+    # Update submodules as needed
+    if(GIT_SUBMODULE)
+      if(NOT EXISTS "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/libdatrie/datrie-0.2.pc.in")
+        message(STATUS "Submodule update")
+        execute_process(COMMAND ${GIT_EXECUTABLE} submodule update --init --recursive
+                        WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}
+                        RESULT_VARIABLE GIT_SUBMOD_RESULT)
+        if(NOT GIT_SUBMOD_RESULT EQUAL "0")
+          message(FATAL_ERROR "git submodule update --init failed with ${GIT_SUBMOD_RESULT}, please checkout submodules")
+        endif()
+      endif()
+    endif()
+  endif()
 
-  FetchContent_Declare(
-          libdatrie
-          GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/tlwg/libdatrie
-          GIT_TAG v0.2.13
-  )
-  FetchContent_MakeAvailable(libdatrie)
-  # this gets us the package source directory
+  if(NOT EXISTS "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/libdatrie/datrie-0.2.pc.in")
+    message(FATAL_ERROR "The submodules were not downloaded! GIT_SUBMODULE was turned off or failed. Please update submodules and try again.")
+  endif()
 endif()
 
 find_package(pybind11 CONFIG)
diff --git a/conda.recipe/meta.yaml b/conda.recipe/meta.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..181539c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/conda.recipe/meta.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+{% set name = "datrie" %}
+{% set version = "0.8.3.dev0" %}
+
+package:
+  name: {{ name|lower }}
+  version: {{ version }}
+
+source:
+  path: ..
+
+build:
+  number: 0
+  script: {{ PYTHON }} -m pip install . -vv
+
+requirements:
+  build:
+    - {{ compiler('c') }}
+    - {{ compiler('cxx') }}
+  host:
+    - python
+    - cmake >=3.15
+    - pybind11
+    - ninja
+    - cython
+    - pip
+
+  run:
+    - python
+
+test:
+  requires:
+    - pytest
+    - hypothesis
+  imports:
+    - datrie
+  source_files:
+    - tests
+  commands:
+    - python -m pytest
+
+about:
+  home: "https://github.com/pytries"
+  license:  LGPL-2.0-or-later
+  license_family: LGPL
+  license_file: COPYING
+  summary: "Fast, efficiently stored Trie for Python. Uses libdatrie."
+  doc_url: "https://github.com/pytries/datrie/blob/master/README.rst"
+  dev_url: "https://github.com/pytries/datrie"
+
+extra:
+  recipe-maintainers:
+    - sarnold
diff --git a/libdatrie b/libdatrie
new file mode 160000
index 0000000..d1dfdb8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libdatrie
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit d1dfdb831093892541cae46eba82c46aec94f726
diff --git a/src/CMakeLists.txt b/src/CMakeLists.txt
index eeed7eb..fe3864c 100644
--- a/src/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -21,11 +21,11 @@ add_custom_command(OUTPUT ${cython_output}
                    COMMENT "Cythonizing extension ${cython_src}")
 
 if(NOT USE_LIBDATRIE_PKG)
-  # use the locally cloned source from FetchContent
-  set(DATRIE_INCLUDE_DIR "${libdatrie_SOURCE_DIR}")
+  # use the local git submodule
+  set(DATRIE_INCLUDE_DIR "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/libdatrie")
   file(GLOB_RECURSE DATRIE_SOURCES
        LIST_DIRECTORIES true
-       "${libdatrie_SOURCE_DIR}/datrie/*.c")
+       "${DATRIE_INCLUDE_DIR}/datrie/*.c")
   list(APPEND cython_output ${DATRIE_SOURCES})
   include_directories(${DATRIE_INCLUDE_DIR})
 endif()
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index c0e0424..71c6424 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -23,19 +23,18 @@ passenv =
     PIP_DOWNLOAD_CACHE
 
 setenv =
-  PYTHONPATH=.
+    PYTHONPATH = {toxinidir}
+    #PYTHONPATH = {env:PYTHONPATH}{:}{toxinidir}
 
 deps =
     pip>=20.0.1
     cython>=0.20
-    path
     pytest
     hypothesis
 
 commands =
     python setup.py build_ext --inplace
     python -m pytest []
-    python -c "import path; path.Path('build').rmtree_p()"
 
 [testenv:dev]
 skip_install = true
@@ -56,6 +55,7 @@ deps =
     path
 
 commands=
+    # this command breaks on windows (permission error)
     python -c "import path; path.Path('build').rmtree_p()"
     pip install -e .[test]
     flake8 src/