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+DESCRIPTION = "A microbenchmark support library"
+HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/google/benchmark"
+SECTION = "libs"
+LICENSE = "Apache-2.0"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=3b83ef96387f14655fc854ddc3c6bd57"
+
+SRC_URI = "git://github.com/google/benchmark.git;protocol=https;branch=main"
+SRCREV = "0d98dba29d66e93259db7daa53a9327df767a415"
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
+
+EXTRA_OECMAKE = " \
+    -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=yes \
+    -DBENCHMARK_ENABLE_TESTING=no \
+    -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
+"
+
+inherit cmake
+
+FILES:${PN}-dev += "${libdir}/cmake"