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 VISUAL C++ USERS
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 Open squirrel.dsw from the root project directory and build(dho!)
+
+
+DOCUMENTATION GENERATION
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+To be able to compile the documentation, make sure that you have Python
+installed and the packages sphinx and sphinx_rtd_theme. Browse into doc/
+and use either the Makefile for GCC-based platforms or make.bat for
+Windows platforms.
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