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+# Copyright (c) 2020 Cisco and/or its affiliates.
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+##############################################################################
+# vat2
+##############################################################################
+add_vpp_executable(vat2 ENABLE_EXPORTS NO_INSTALL
+  SOURCES
+  main.c
+  plugin.c
+  jsonconvert.c
+
+  DEPENDS api_headers
+
+  LINK_LIBRARIES
+  vlibmemoryclient
+  svm
+  vppinfra
+  vppapiclient
+  Threads::Threads
+  rt m dl crypto
+)
+
+##############################################################################
+# vat2 headers
+##############################################################################
+install(
+  FILES
+  jsonconvert.h
+  vat2_helpers.h
+  DESTINATION include/vat2
+  COMPONENT vpp-dev
+)