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+------
+libdir
+------
+
+
+This package provides support for the libdir format of libraries that is used
+in Pd-extended.  It should work with any version of Pd 0.40 or newer.
+
+To install, copy the files for your platform into your "extra" folder and the
+help patches to the "doc/5.reference" folder.  You will need to load the
+libdir.dll/libdir.pd_linux/libdir.pd_darwin as a library before trying to load
+any libdirs.  The libdirs have to be in the global classpath in order to be
+found.
+
+You can add a library two ways:
+ - add this text to one of the fields in the "Startup" prefs:  libdir
+ - load it on the command line with this:  -lib libdir
+
+For more info on the structure of libdirs, see this webpage:
+
+http://puredata.org/docs/developer/Libdir
+
+If you want to compile these yourself, it will be much easier to compile it
+out of the pure-data CVS.  Otherwise, just drop these into any working
+externals build system and they should compile, they are very simple C files.