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+Palantir - A Lightweight, RESTful DICOM Server
+==============================================
+
+
+Dependencies
+------------
+
+Palantir uses CMake (http://www.cmake.org/) to automate its building
+process. You thus have to download and install CMake first.
+
+The other third party dependencies are automatically downloaded by the
+CMake scripts. The downloaded packages are stored in the
+"ThirdPartyDownloads" directory.
+
+
+
+Building Palantir at a glance
+-----------------------------
+
+To build Palantir, you must:
+
+1) Download the source code (either using Mercurial, or through the
+   released versions). For the examples below, we assume the source
+   directory is "~/Palantir".
+
+2) Create a build directory. For the examples below, we assume the
+   build directory is "~/PalantirBuild".
+
+
+
+Native Linux Compilation
+------------------------
+
+To build binaries with debug information:
+
+# cd ~/PalantirBuild
+# cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=DEBUG ~/Palantir
+# make
+# make doc
+
+
+To build a release version:
+
+# cd ~/PalantirBuild
+# cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RELEASE ~/Palantir
+# make
+# make doc
+
+
+Under Linux, you have the possibility to dynamically link Palantir
+against the shared libraries of your system, provided their version is
+recent enough. This greatly speeds up the compilation:
+
+# cd ~/PalantirBuild
+# cmake -DSTATIC_BUILD=OFF -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=DEBUG ~/Palantir
+# make
+
+ 
+
+Cross-Compilation for Windows under Linux
+-----------------------------------------
+
+To cross-compile Windows binaries under Linux using MinGW, please use
+the following command:
+
+# cd ~/PalantirBuild
+# cmake -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=~/Palantir/Resources/MinGWToolchain.cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=DEBUG ~/Palantir
+# make