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+SUMMARY = "Expression parser"
+HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/ArashPartow/exprtk"
+SECTION = "libs"
+LICENSE = "MIT"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COMMON_LICENSE_DIR}/MIT;md5=0835ade698e0bcf8506ecda2f7b4f302"
+SRCREV = "281c2ccc65b8f91c012ea3725ebcef406378a225"
+
+SRC_URI = "git://github.com/ArashPartow/exprtk.git"
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
+
+# other packages commonly reference the file directly as "exprtk.hpp"
+# create symlink to allow this usage
+do_install() {
+    install -d ${D}/${includedir}
+    install -m 0644 ${S}/exprtk.hpp ${D}/${includedir}/exprtk.hpp
+}
+
+# exprtk is a header only C++ library, so the main package will be empty.
+RDEPENDS_${PN}-dev = ""
+
+BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"