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+project(
+    'drm_hwcomposer',
+    ['c', 'cpp'],
+    version : '2',
+    license : 'APACHE-2.0',
+    meson_version : '>= 0.56',
+    default_options : ['buildtype=debugoptimized', 'b_ndebug=if-release', 'c_std=c11', 'cpp_std=c++17', 'cpp_rtti=false']
+)
+
+inc_include = [include_directories('.')]
+
+src_common = files(
+    'compositor/DrmKmsPlan.cpp',
+    'backend/BackendManager.cpp',
+    'backend/Backend.cpp',
+    'backend/BackendClient.cpp',
+)
+
+deps = [
+    dependency('cutils'),
+    dependency('drm'),
+    dependency('hardware'),
+    dependency('hidlbase'),
+    dependency('log'),
+    dependency('sync'),
+    dependency('ui'),
+    dependency('utils'),
+]
+
+common_cpp_flags = [
+    '-DUSE_IMAPPER4_METADATA_API',
+]
+
+hwc2_cpp_flags = [
+    '-DHWC2_INCLUDE_STRINGIFICATION',
+    '-DHWC2_USE_CPP11',
+]
+
+subdir('drm')
+subdir('bufferinfo')
+
+drmhwc_common = static_library(
+    'drm_hwcomposer_common',
+    src_common,
+# TODO remove hwc2 flags from common code (backends needs rework)
+    cpp_args : common_cpp_flags + hwc2_cpp_flags,
+    dependencies : deps,
+)
+
+subdir('hwc2_device')