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+# IT4Innovations 2018
+
+easyblock = 'CMakeMake'
+
+name = 'RapidJSON'
+version = '1.1.0'
+
+homepage = "http://rapidjson.org/"
+description = """A fast JSON parser/generator for C++ with both SAX/DOM style API
+Tencent is pleased to support the open source community by making RapidJSON available.
+Copyright (C) 2015 THL A29 Limited, a Tencent company, and Milo Yip. All rights reserved.
+"""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'GCC', 'version': '6.3.0-2.27'}
+toolchainopts = {'pic': True}
+
+source_urls = ['https://github.com/Tencent/rapidjson/archive/']
+sources = ['v%(version)s.tar.gz']
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('CMake', '3.11.4'),
+]
+
+sanity_check_paths={
+    'files': [],
+    'dirs': ['include', 'lib', 'share'],
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'lang'