01/16: gnu: Add flatbuffers.

[Leo Famulari]

lfam pushed a commit to branch master
in repository guix.

commit 04953dca414788433f039e1844a6cc1c8f37be5f
Author: Leo Famulari <address@hidden>
Date:   Sat Feb 17 15:44:04 2018 -0500

    gnu: Add flatbuffers.
    
    * gnu/packages/serialization.scm (flatbuffers): New variable.
---
 gnu/packages/serialization.scm | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/serialization.scm b/gnu/packages/serialization.scm
index 9bbac3a..fd61462 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/serialization.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/serialization.scm
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 ;;; Copyright © 2017 Frederick M. Muriithi <address@hidden>
 ;;; Copyright © 2017 ng0 <address@hidden>
 ;;; Copyright © 2017 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <address@hidden>
+;;; Copyright © 2018 Joshua Sierles, Nextjournal <address@hidden>
 ;;;
 ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
 ;;;
@@ -411,3 +412,28 @@ JSON's ability, but serializes to a binary format which is 
smaller and faster
 to generate and parse.  The two primary functions are @code{cbor.loads} and
 @code{cbor.dumps}.")
     (license license:asl2.0)))
+
+(define-public flatbuffers
+  (package
+    (name "flatbuffers")
+    (version "1.8.0")
+    (source
+      (origin
+        (method url-fetch)
+        (uri (string-append "https://github.com/google/flatbuffers/archive/v";
+                            version ".tar.gz"))
+        (sha256
+         (base32
+          "0blc978wc5h91662vai24xj92c3bx56y6hzid90qva7il302jl64"))))
+    (build-system cmake-build-system)
+    (arguments
+     '(#:configure-flags
+       (list (string-append "-DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR="
+                            (assoc-ref %outputs "out") "/lib")
+             "-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release")))
+    (home-page "https://google.github.io/flatbuffers/";)
+    (synopsis "Memory-efficient serialization library")
+    (description "FlatBuffers is a cross platform serialization library for 
C++,
+C#, C, Go, Java, JavaScript, PHP, and Python.  It was originally created for
+game development and other performance-critical applications.")
+    (license license:asl2.0)))