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+# Template file for 'cppcodec'
+pkgname=cppcodec
+version=0.2
+revision=1
+build_style=cmake
+hostmakedepends="pkg-config"
+makedepends="catch2"
+short_desc="Header-only C++11 library to encode/decode base64*, base32* and hex"
+maintainer="Julio Galvan <juliogalvan@protonmail.com>"
+license="MIT"
+homepage="https://github.com/tplgy/cppcodec"
+distfiles="${homepage}/archive/v${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=0edaea2a9d9709d456aa99a1c3e17812ed130f9ef2b5c2d152c230a5cbc5c482
+
+post_install() {
+	vlicense LICENSE
+}