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+SUMMARY = "Font rendering capabilities for complex non-Roman writing systems"
+HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/tfussell/xlnt"
+LICENSE = "MIT"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE.md;md5=edf9330898c89b4ef169be15be60107e"
+
+inherit cmake
+
+#DEPENDS += "freetype"
+
+SRC_URI = "git://github.com/tfussell/xlnt.git"
+SRCREV = "f30260153fcee7e1f775f25ff0cb2750e7826296"
+S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
+PV = "1.3.0+git${SRCPV}"