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+============
+Installation
+============
+
+libHX uses GNU autotools as a build environment, which means that
+all you have to run as a end-user is the configure with any
+options that you need, plus the usual make and make install as
+desired.
+
+Pay attention to multi-lib Linux distributions where you most
+likely need to specify a different libdir instead of using the
+default “lib”. In case of the Debian-style multi-arch/multi-lib
+proposal (http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch)::
+
+.. code-block:: sh
+
+	./configure --libdir='${prefix}/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu'
+
+and the classic-style 32-64 2-lib distributions::
+
+.. code-block:: sh
+
+	./configure --libdir='${prefix}/lib64'
+
+Requirements
+------------
+
+* GNU C Compiler 3.3.5 or newer. Other compilers (non-GCC) have
+  not been tested in months — use at your own risk.
+
+* approximately 80–160 KB of disk space on Linux for the shared
+  library (depends on platform) and header files.
+
+A C++ compiler is only needed if you want to build the C++ test
+programs that come with libHX. By default, if there is no C++
+compiler present, these will not be built.
+
+* No external libraries are needed for compilation of libHX.
+  Helper files, like libxml_helper.h, may reference their include
+  files, but they are not used during compilation.
+
+
+Portability notice
+==================
+
+libHX runs on contemporary versions of Linux and Windows. It ought to work on
+Solaris and the BSD distributions, but this is not build-tested at this time.
+
+C99 is mandatory. The integer type ``int`` should at best have 32 bits at
+least.