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+# Copyright 2013-2022 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
+
+from spack.package import *
+
+
+class Cppcodec(CMakePackage):
+    """Header-only C++11 library to encode/decode base64, base64url, base32,
+    base32hex and hex (a.k.a. base16) as specified in RFC 4648, plus
+    Crockford's base32. MIT licensed with consistent, flexible API."""
+
+    maintainers = ['vmiheer']
+    homepage = "https://github.com/tplgy/cppcodec"
+    url = "https://github.com/tplgy/cppcodec/archive/refs/tags/v0.2.tar.gz"
+
+    version('0.2', sha256='0edaea2a9d9709d456aa99a1c3e17812ed130f9ef2b5c2d152c230a5cbc5c482')
+
+    depends_on('cmake@2.8:', type='build')