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+#
+# Copyright 2019 The Abseil Authors.
+#
+# 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
+#
+#      https://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.
+#
+
+workspace(name = "com_google_absl")
+load("@bazel_tools//tools/build_defs/repo:http.bzl", "http_archive")
+
+# GoogleTest/GoogleMock framework. Used by most unit-tests.
+http_archive(
+     name = "com_google_googletest",
+     urls = ["https://github.com/google/googletest/archive/b6cd405286ed8635ece71c72f118e659f4ade3fb.zip"],  # 2019-01-07
+     strip_prefix = "googletest-b6cd405286ed8635ece71c72f118e659f4ade3fb",
+     sha256 = "ff7a82736e158c077e76188232eac77913a15dac0b22508c390ab3f88e6d6d86",
+)
+
+# Google benchmark.
+http_archive(
+    name = "com_github_google_benchmark",
+    urls = ["https://github.com/google/benchmark/archive/16703ff83c1ae6d53e5155df3bb3ab0bc96083be.zip"],
+    strip_prefix = "benchmark-16703ff83c1ae6d53e5155df3bb3ab0bc96083be",
+    sha256 = "59f918c8ccd4d74b6ac43484467b500f1d64b40cc1010daa055375b322a43ba3",
+)
+
+# C++ rules for Bazel.
+http_archive(
+    name = "rules_cc",
+    sha256 = "67412176974bfce3f4cf8bdaff39784a72ed709fc58def599d1f68710b58d68b",
+    strip_prefix = "rules_cc-b7fe9697c0c76ab2fd431a891dbb9a6a32ed7c3e",
+    urls = [
+        "https://mirror.bazel.build/github.com/bazelbuild/rules_cc/archive/b7fe9697c0c76ab2fd431a891dbb9a6a32ed7c3e.zip",
+        "https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_cc/archive/b7fe9697c0c76ab2fd431a891dbb9a6a32ed7c3e.zip",
+    ],
+)