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+// Copyright (c) 2019-2021 Alexander Medvednikov. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by an MIT license
+// that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+module stbi
+
+// NB: stbi uses math.h because of `ldexp` and `pow`, for which we *do* have
+// pure V implementations, but our `math` module still depends on libm
+// because of 'powf', 'cosf', 'sinf', 'sqrtf' and 'tanf'.
+
+// TODO: remove this file, when we have pure V implementations for the above
+// functions too, and so `math` is no longer dependent on `libm` at all.
+
+#include <math.h>
+
+$if windows {
+	$if tinyc {
+		#flag @VEXEROOT/thirdparty/tcc/lib/openlibm.o
+	}
+} $else {
+	#flag -lm
+}