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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 Bigwhoop(CMakePackage):
+    """BigWhoop is a lossy compression algorithm for numerical
+    datasets from HPC engineering applications.
+    """
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/ptvogler/BigWhoop"
+    url = "https://github.com/ptvogler/BigWhoop/archive/refs/tags/v0.2.0.tar.gz"
+    git = "https://github.com/ptvogler/BigWhoop.git"
+
+    maintainers("ptvogler", "gregorweiss")
+
+    license("BSD-2-Clause", checked_by="ptvogler")
+
+    version("main", branch="main")
+    version("0.2.0", sha256="48e6aeaf9c6d39c18c030397e0cb46c43491cbf64400dda1efb4293696716692")
+
+    depends_on("c", type="build")
+    depends_on("fortran", type="build")
+
+    depends_on("cmake@3.5.1:", type="build")
+    depends_on("python", type="build")
+
+    # Build targets
+    variant("shared", default=True, description="Build shared libraries")
+    variant("utilities", default=False, description="Build bigwhoop utilities")
+
+    # Execution policies
+    variant("openmp", default=True, description="Enable OpenMP execution")
+
+    # Advanced settings
+    variant("profiling", default=False, description="Enable profiling")
+    variant("precision", default="Double", description="Enable double precision")
+
+    # CMake options
+    def cmake_args(self):
+        spec = self.spec
+
+        args = [
+            self.define_from_variant("BUILD_SHARED_LIBS", "shared"),
+            self.define_from_variant("BUILD_UTILITIES", "utilities"),
+            self.define_from_variant("BIGWHOOP_WITH_OPENMP", "openmp"),
+            self.define_from_variant("BIGWHOOP_WITH_PROFILING", "profiling"),
+            self.define("BIGWHOOP_PRECISION", spec.variants["precision"].value),
+        ]
+
+        return args