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+project(
+    'phosphor-u-boot-env-mgr',
+    'cpp',
+    default_options: [
+        'warning_level=3',
+        'werror=true',
+        'cpp_std=c++20' 	#highly suspect there should be more entries tied to line 4-6 of CMakeLists.txt.old                 
+    ],
+    license: 'Apache-2.0',
+    version: '0.1',
+    meson_version: '>=0.64.0',
+)
+add_project_arguments('-Wno-psabi',          	#no idea what this line is about or where it came from                     
+    '-DBOOST_ERROR_CODE_HEADER_ONLY',
+    '-DBOOST_SYSTEM_NO_DEPRECATED',
+    '-DBOOST_ALL_NO_LIB',
+    '-DBOOST_NO_RTTI',
+    '-DBOOST_NO_TYPEID',
+    '-DBOOST_ASIO_DISABLE_THREADS',
+ language: 'cpp')
+
+boost = dependency('boost', version: '>=1.75.0', include_type: 'system', required : true)
+sdbusplus = dependency('sdbusplus', include_type: 'system', required : true)
+dbusinterface = dependency('phosphor-dbus-interfaces', include_type: 'system', required : true)
+phosphor_logging_dep = dependency('phosphor-logging', required : true)
+
+default_deps =[
+	boost,
+	phosphor_logging_dep,
+	sdbusplus,
+	dbusinterface,
+	]
+	
+incdir = include_directories('include')
+
+subdir('src')
+subdir('include')
+subdir('service_files')
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