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+# MXE (M cross environment)
+
+[![Travis build][travis-badge]][travis-page]
+[![License][license-badge]][license-page]
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+[travis-page]: https://travis-ci.org/mxe/mxe
+[travis-badge]: https://travis-ci.org/mxe/mxe.png
+[license-page]: LICENSE
+[license-badge]: http://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-brightgreen.png
+
+MXE (M cross environment) is a Makefile that compiles a cross
+compiler and cross compiles many free libraries such as SDL and
+Qt. Thus, it provides a nice cross compiling environment for
+various target platforms, which:
+
+  * is designed to run on any Unix system
+  * is easy to adapt and to extend
+  * builds many free libraries in addition to the cross compiler
+  * can also build just a subset of the packages, and automatically builds their dependencies
+  * downloads all needed packages and verifies them by their checksums
+  * is able to update the version numbers of all packages automatically
+  * directly uses source packages, thus ensuring the whole build mechanism is transparent
+  * allows inter-package and intra-package parallel builds whenever possible
+  * integrates well with autotools, cmake, qmake, and hand-written makefiles.
+  * has been in continuous development since 2007 and is used by several projects
+
+## Supported Toolchains
+
+  * Runtime: MinGW-w64
+  * Host Triplet:
+    - `i686-w64-mingw32`
+    - `x86_64-w64-mingw32`
+  * Packages:
+    - static
+    - shared
+
+Shared support in MXE was just added in early February, 2014.