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-version: 2.1
-executors: #(1)
-  exectr:
-      docker:
-      - image: cimg/base:edge-20.04
-    #docker:
-    #  - image: dockerben/cpptemplate:latest
-    # example, maybe setup my own image later
-    # https://thoughts-on-coding.com/2020/04/20/a-cpp-github-template-repository-utilizing-circleci-cmake-docker-and-doxygen/
-    # should look into Windows, Ubuntu, OSX executions in parallell with CircleCI ref https://circleci.com/docs/2.0/parallelism-faster-jobs/
-jobs:
-  build:
-    executor: exectr #(1)
-    steps:
-      - checkout 
-      - run: 
-          name: build_and_run
-          command: |
-            ./scripts/buildAndRunTests.sh
-      
-      
-