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+# libsm64 - Super Mario 64 as a library
+
+## Building
+
+### Linux
+
+1. Clone this repo and cd in to it
+2. `./configure`
+3. `make`
+4. Now do something interesting with `libsm64.so`, it's not much use on its own.
+
+### Window
+
+TODO
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