[Q] netcat in clockwork recovery

Hi,
I was wondering if anyone had done this before or maybe give me some advice.
I want to be able to use netcat/(nc) in clockwork recovery.
I understand that busybox which is included in the recovery has nc capability, but nc was not compiled as part of the recovery's busybox.
I tried to compile the recovery with a few changes on external/busybox, but whenever I include nc, it runs into an error during compile time.

I also understand that there is an external/netcat, but I do not know how to add that into the recovery's compilation process.

I have tried to search around, but have not found any information on how to add new executables into clockwork recovery

thanks for any help you may be able to give.