diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
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+tmp/
+bin/
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
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+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
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+cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.9.1)
+project(halo VERSION 1.0.1 DESCRIPTION "A small ring buffer written in C to use with some other projects")
+add_library(halo SHARED src src/ring.c)
+set_target_properties(halo PROPERTIES VERSION ${PROJECT_VERSION})
+set_target_properties(halo PROPERTIES SOVERSION 1)
+set_target_properties(halo PROPERTIES PUBLIC_HEADER "include/ring.h")
+target_include_directories(halo PRIVATE include)
+include(GNUInstallDirs)
+configure_file(halo.pc.in halo.pc @ONLY)
+install(TARGETS halo LIBRARY DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR} PUBLIC_HEADER DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_INCLUDEDIR})
+install(FILES ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/halo.pc DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_DATAROOTDIR}/pkgconfig)
diff --git a/halo.pc.in b/halo.pc.in
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+++ b/halo.pc.in
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+prefix=@CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX@
+exec_prefix=@CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX@
+libdir=${exec_prefix}/@CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR@
+includedir=${prefix}/@CMAKE_INSTALL_INCLUDEDIR@
+
+Name: @PROJECT_NAME@
+Description: @PROJECT_DESCRIPTION@
+Version: @PROJECT_VERSION@
+
+Requires:
+Libs: -L${libdir} -lhalo
+Cflags: -I${includedir}