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+{
+  autoreconfHook,
+  fetchFromGitHub,
+  lib,
+  stdenv,
+  testers,
+  unstableGitUpdater,
+}:
+stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
+  pname = "alac";
+  version = "0.0.7-unstable-2024-10-16";
+
+  outputs = [
+    "out"
+    "dev"
+  ];
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "mikebrady";
+    repo = "alac";
+    rev = "1832544d27d01335d823d639b176d1cae25ecfd4";
+    hash = "sha256-xRWDeqyJ/BEaSWVlDXgaKIKJuBwM8kJDIATVTVaMn2k=";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    autoreconfHook
+  ];
+
+  # error: 'TARGET_OS_MAC' is not defined, evaluates to 0
+  env.NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = lib.optionalString stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin "-DTARGET_OS_MAC";
+
+  passthru = {
+    updateScript = unstableGitUpdater { };
+    tests.pkg-config = testers.testMetaPkgConfig finalAttrs.finalPackage;
+  };
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Apple Lossless Codec and Utility with Autotools";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/mikebrady/alac";
+    license = lib.licenses.asl20;
+    pkgConfigModules = [ "alac" ];
+    platforms = lib.platforms.all;
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ jopejoe1 ];
+  };
+})