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+project(bzip2 C)
+cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.8)
+
+add_definitions(-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64)
+
+# bzip2.c and bzip2recover.c are not built because we are only
+# interested in building the library (not executables).
+set(BZIP2_SRCS
+  blocksort.c
+  huffman.c
+  crctable.c
+  randtable.c
+  compress.c
+  decompress.c
+  bzlib.c
+  libbz2.def)
+
+add_library(bzip2 STATIC ${BZIP2_SRCS})
+
+install(TARGETS bzip2
+  DESTINATION ${BZIP2_INSTALL_DIR})
+
+install(FILES bzlib.h
+  DESTINATION ${BZIP2_INSTALL_DIR})