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+# Copyright 2013-2023 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 Libsixel(MesonPackage):
+    """
+    This package provides encoder/decoder implementation for DEC SIXEL graphics,
+    and some converter programs like img2sixel.
+    """
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/libsixel/libsixel"
+    url = "https://github.com/libsixel/libsixel/archive/refs/tags/v1.10.3.tar.gz"
+
+    maintainers("taliaferro")
+
+    version("1.10.3", sha256="028552eb8f2a37c6effda88ee5e8f6d87b5d9601182ddec784a9728865f821e0")
+
+    variant("img2sixel", default=True, description="build binary img2sixel")
+    variant("sixel2png", default=True, description="build binary sixel2png")
+    variant("gd", default=True, description="build with libgd")
+    variant("jpeg", default=False, description="build with libjpeg")
+    variant("png", default=False, description="build with libpng")
+    variant("libcurl", default=False, description="build with libcurl")
+    variant("gdk-pixbuf2", default=False, description="build with gdk-pixbuf2")
+
+    depends_on("curl", when="+libcurl")
+    depends_on("libgd", when="+gd")
+    depends_on("gdk-pixbuf", when="+gdk-pixbuf2")
+    depends_on("libjpeg", when="+jpeg")
+    depends_on("libpng", when="+png")
+
+    def meson_args(self):
+        options = ["img2sixel", "sixel2png", "libcurl", "gdk-pixbuf2"]
+        args = []
+        for option in options:
+            state = "enabled" if "+{}".format(option) in self.spec else "disabled"
+            args.append("-D{option}={state}".format(option=option, state=state))
+        return args