diff --git a/ports/xtensor-io/CONTROL b/ports/xtensor-io/CONTROL
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+++ b/ports/xtensor-io/CONTROL
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+Source: xtensor-io
+Version: 0.7.0
+Description: xtensor plugin to read and write images, audio files, numpy (compressed) npz and HDF5
+Build-Depends: xtensor, xtl
+
diff --git a/ports/xtensor-io/portfile.cmake b/ports/xtensor-io/portfile.cmake
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+# header-only library
+
+include(vcpkg_common_functions)
+
+vcpkg_from_github(
+    OUT_SOURCE_PATH SOURCE_PATH
+    REPO QuantStack/xtensor-io
+    REF 0.7.0
+    SHA512 6c8416c595d022ed60cd802deec6d63128d205d6fd13962098b6242ace4fa9e61122e5b05837a1aab3b64bc042da7cbf2f72f2328155c342de3a6db741d4d4ee
+    HEAD_REF master
+)
+
+vcpkg_configure_cmake(
+    SOURCE_PATH ${SOURCE_PATH}
+    PREFER_NINJA
+    OPTIONS
+        -DBUILD_TESTS=OFF
+        -DDOWNLOAD_GTEST=OFF
+        -DDOWNLOAD_GBENCHMARK=OFF
+)
+
+vcpkg_install_cmake()
+
+vcpkg_fixup_cmake_targets(CONFIG_PATH lib/cmake/${PORT})
+
+file(REMOVE_RECURSE ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/debug ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/lib)
+
+# Handle copyright
+file(COPY ${SOURCE_PATH}/LICENSE DESTINATION ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/share/${PORT})
+file(RENAME ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/share/${PORT}/LICENSE ${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/share/${PORT}/copyright)
+