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+{
+    "version": "8.12.1",
+    "description": "A demand-driven, horizontally threaded image processing library",
+    "homepage": "https://www.libvips.org/",
+    "license": "LGPL-2.1-only",
+    "architecture": {
+        "64bit": {
+            "hash": "49e6909c8e0c57f15677c16434946b45a288d078b4bc65a3e03616b0aed08881",
+            "url": "https://github.com/libvips/build-win64-mxe/releases/download/v8.12.1/vips-dev-w64-all-8.12.1.zip"
+        },
+        "32bit": {
+            "hash": "f084cbd6b15e4f8afd28b7893f628fa8bd3fc9d601bfe0fddac4fdeddbe3233a",
+            "url": "https://github.com/libvips/build-win64-mxe/releases/download/v8.12.1/vips-dev-w32-all-8.12.1.zip"
+        }
+    },
+    "extract_dir": "vips-dev-8.12",
+    "bin": [
+        "bin\\vips.exe",
+        "bin\\vipsedit.exe",
+        "bin\\vipsheader.exe",
+        "bin\\vipsthumbnail.exe"
+    ],
+    "checkver": {
+        "github": "https://github.com/libvips/build-win64-mxe"
+    },
+    "autoupdate": {
+        "architecture": {
+            "64bit": {
+                "url": "https://github.com/libvips/build-win64-mxe/releases/download/v$version/vips-dev-w64-all-$version.zip"
+            },
+            "32bit": {
+                "url": "https://github.com/libvips/build-win64-mxe/releases/download/v$version/vips-dev-w32-all-$version.zip"
+            }
+        },
+        "extract_dir": "vips-dev-$majorVersion.$minorVersion"
+    }
+}