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+SUMMARY = "The pure C++ implementation of the MMTF API, decoder and encoder"
+HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/rcsb/mmtf-cpp"
+LICENSE = "MIT"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=7be9bbf9f4ec4ed1e36494b29561af1e"
+
+inherit cmake
+
+DEPENDS = "msgpack-c"
+
+SRC_URI = "gitsm://github.com/rcsb/mmtf-cpp.git"
+SRCREV = "407bf8e541530579b1f2c3e7f7fa96bb06ef5be9"
+S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
+
+RDEPENDS_${PN} += "msgpack-c"