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+# Caltech CS 3 on Windows
+
+## Package Information
+
+Make executable was copied from
+https://bitbucket.org/xoviat/chocolatey-packages/src/master/which,
+is the source of Chocolatey's make. 
+The include, lib, and share folders in this repo do not need to be
+distributed (they're for building addons).
+
+The remainder of the packages were built with vcpkg's x64-windows triplet and copied here.
+
+Packages:
+
+- sdl2
+- sdl2-gfx
+- sdl2-image\[libjpeg-turbo\]
+- sdl2-ttf
+- sdl2-mixer\[dynamic-load, libflac, mpg123, nativemidi\]
+
+Adding additional packages is easy if they are available as the appropriate triplet.
+Once all packages are installed, copy the contents of the bin, include, and lib folders for the x64-windows triplet into this repo.
+
+## Using this repository
+
+Clone this repository in `C:\Users\<username>`, so that the path to the top-level folder is `C:\Users\<username>\caltech-cs3-msvc`.
+The CS 3 projects should be set up appropriately to use the dependencies bundled here.