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 This code is released under the MIT Licence see the Copyright file.
 
+To build on an Unixised setup:
+   ./configure ; make ; make install
+To build on Windows:
+   see instructions on win32/Readme.txt
+
+To assert build quality:
+   on an Unixised setup:
+      run make tests
+   otherwise:
+       There is 2 standalone tools runtest.c and testapi.c, which should
+       compile as part of the build or as any application would.
+       Launch them from this directory to get results, runtest checks 
+       the proper functionning of libxml2 main APIs while testapi does
+       a full coverage check. Report failures to the list.
+
 To report bugs, follow the instructions at: 
   http://xmlsoft.org/bugs.html