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+# Copyright Spack Project Developers. See COPYRIGHT file for details.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
+
+from spack.package import *
+
+
+class OptixDev(Package):
+    """OptiX is an application framework for achieving optimal ray tracing
+    performance on the GPU. This package contains the minimal set of necessary
+    header files for building an application with OptiX support, including
+    access to the OptiX functions provided by the NVIDIA display driver.
+    https://github.com/NVIDIA/optix-dev It is not necessary to use this
+    package when installing the complete OptiX SDK; header files are already
+    included in the OptiX SDK."""
+
+    homepage = "https://developer.nvidia.com/rtx/ray-tracing/optix"
+    url = "https://github.com/NVIDIA/optix-dev/archive/refs/tags/v9.0.0.tar.gz"
+
+    license("LicenseRef-NvidiaProprietary AND BSD-3-Clause")
+
+    maintainers("plexoos")
+    build_system("generic")
+
+    version("9.0.0", sha256="069a5860040ea611e7eb6317f8e3bb0f0d54a5acac744568f7290d7cb8711c05")
+    version("8.1.0", sha256="aa32dfb55f37ff92964a5545b056094d86635441b3513e1d45a9410404b6d7c2")
+    version("8.0.0", sha256="b32e74c9f5c13549ff3a9760076271b5b6ec28f93fe6a8dd0bde74d7e5c58e05")
+    version("7.7.0", sha256="02e5acdb8870a5668c763d47043d61586c1c4e72395d64e7bdd99ea04bc4222d")
+    version("7.6.0", sha256="4fe1e047d0e80980e57c469e3491f88cd3c3b735462b35cb3a0c2797a751fb1e")
+    version("7.5.0", sha256="9053ba3636dd612ad5e50106a56ea4022e719a2d35c914c61fc9bc681b0e64d6")
+    version("7.4.0", sha256="91d35f1ba0f519f9e98582586478a64d323e7d7263b8b8349797c4aeb7fc53af")
+    version("7.3.0", sha256="a74b0120e308258f5b5d5b30f905e13e1ceeeca2058aaee58310c84647fcc31d")
+    version("7.2.0", sha256="a82bc7da75f3db81be73826a00b694c858be356258323d454f4e1aa78a5670f8")
+    version("7.1.0", sha256="70b9adac04e5a36185e715a74306f22426334b6a3850dd7f1a2744212c83f9e1")
+    version("7.0.0", sha256="8b294bcd4d23ced20310d73ed320c7bc3ecbb79e3d50f00eb5d97a3639d129a3")
+
+    depends_on("c", type="build")
+    depends_on("cxx", type="build")
+
+    def install(self, spec, prefix):
+        install_tree("include", prefix.include)
+        install("LICENSE.txt", prefix)
+        install("license_info.txt", prefix)