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+#!/usr/bin/env perl
+use v5.16;
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;
+
+WriteMakefile(
+  NAME         => 'tei2korapxml',
+  AUTHOR       => 'Peter Harders',
+  ABSTRACT     => 'Conversion of TEI P5 based formats to KorAP-XML',
+  VERSION      => '0.1',
+  LICENSE      => 'freebsd',
+  BUILD_REQUIRES => {
+    'Test::More' => 0,
+    'Test::Output' => 0
+  },
+  PREREQ_PM => {
+    'XML::CompactTree::XS'     => '0.03',
+    'XML::LibXML::Reader' => '2.0201',
+    'IO::Compress::Zip' => '2.091',
+  },
+  MIN_PERL_VERSION => '5.016',
+  EXE_FILES => ['./script/tei2korapxml']
+);