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-rw-r--r--gnu/packages/xml.scm33
1 files changed, 33 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/xml.scm b/gnu/packages/xml.scm
index 283d5112ae..7460b5d85f 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/xml.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/xml.scm
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
#:use-module (gnu packages python)
#:use-module (gnu packages tls)
#:use-module (gnu packages web)
+ #:use-module (gnu packages zip)
#:use-module ((guix licenses) #:prefix license:)
#:use-module (guix packages)
#:use-module (guix download)
@@ -1089,3 +1090,35 @@ files. It is designed to be fast and to handle large input files.")
(define-public python2-defusedxml
(package-with-python2 python-defusedxml))
+
+(define-public libxls
+ (package
+ (name "libxls")
+ (version "1.4.0")
+ (source (origin
+ (method url-fetch)
+ (uri (string-append "https://sourceforge.net/projects/"
+ name "/files/" name "-"
+ version ".zip"))
+ (sha256
+ (base32
+ "1g8ds7wbhsa4hdcn77xc2c0l3vvz5bx2hx9ng9c9n7aii92ymfnk"))))
+ (build-system gnu-build-system)
+ (arguments
+ `(#:phases
+ (modify-phases %standard-phases
+ ;; Bootstrapping is required in order to fix the test driver script.
+ (add-after 'unpack 'bootstrap
+ (lambda _
+ (zero? (system* "bash" "bootstrap")))))))
+ (native-inputs
+ `(("unzip" ,unzip)
+ ("autoconf" ,autoconf)
+ ("automake" ,automake)
+ ("libtool" ,libtool)))
+ (home-page "http://libxls.sourceforge.net/")
+ (synopsis "Read Excel files")
+ (description
+ "libxls is a C library which can read Excel (xls) files since Excel 97 (the BIFF8 format).
+libxls cannot write Excel files.")
+ (license license:bsd-2)))