diff --git a/recipes/rapidjson/bld.bat b/recipes/rapidjson/bld.bat
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+set RAPIDJSON_DIR=%SRC_DIR%
+
+REM Copy headers
+xcopy /S %RAPIDJSON_DIR%\include %LIBRARY_INC%
diff --git a/recipes/rapidjson/build.sh b/recipes/rapidjson/build.sh
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+#!/bin/env bash
+
+set -e
+
+mkdir build-dir
+cd build-dir
+
+cmake -DRAPIDJSON_HAS_STDSTRING=ON \
+      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$PREFIX \
+      -DRAPIDJSON_BUILD_CXX11=ON \
+      -DRAPIDJSON_BUILD_TESTS=OFF \
+      -DRAPIDJSON_BUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF \
+      -DRAPIDJSON_BUILD_DOC=OFF \
+      -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON \
+      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=release \
+      ..
+
+make -j${CPU_COUNT}
+ctest
+make install
diff --git a/recipes/rapidjson/meta.yaml b/recipes/rapidjson/meta.yaml
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+{% set version = "1.1.0" %}
+
+package:
+  name: rapidjson
+  version: {{ version }}
+
+source:
+  url: https://github.com/miloyip/rapidjson/archive/v{{ version }}.tar.gz
+  fn: {{ version }}.tar.gz
+  md5: badd12c511e081fec6c89c43a7027bce
+
+build:
+  number: 1
+
+requirements:
+  build:
+    - toolchain
+    - cmake
+
+test:
+  commands:
+    - test -e $PREFIX/include/rapidjson/rapidjson.h  # [unix]
+    - if exist %LIBRARY_INC%\rapidjson\rapidjson.h (exit 0) else (exit 1)  # [win]
+
+about:
+  home: https://github.com/miloyip/rapidjson
+  summary: A fast JSON parser/generator for C++ with both SAX/DOM style API
+  license: MIT
+  license_file: license.txt
+  license_family: MIT
+
+extra:
+  recipe-maintainers:
+    - wesm