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+goat3d
+======
+
+About
+-----
+Goat3D is a hierarchical 3D scene, character, and animation file format, and
+acompanying read/write library, targeting mostly real-time applications.
+
+The specification defines a hierarchical structure (see `doc/goatfmt`, and
+`doc/goatanimfmt` for details), which can be stored in either text or binary
+form. An application using the provided library to read/write goat3d files,
+should be able to handle either variant, with no extra effort (NOTE: currently
+the binary format is not implemented). The animations can be part of the scene
+file, or in separate files.
+
+This project provides the specification of the file format, a simple library
+with a clean C API for reading and writing files in the goat3d scene and
+animation files, as well as a number of tools dealing with such files.
+
+Specifically, at the moment, the goat3d project provides the following:
+ - *libgoat3d*, a library for reading and writing goat3d scene and animation files.
+ - *ass2goat*, a universal 3D asset conversion utility based on the excellent
+   assimp library, from a huge number of 3D file formats to the goat3d file
+   format.
+ - *goatinfo*, a command-line tool for inspecting the contents of goat3d files.
+ - *goatview*, a 3D scene and animation preview tool, based on OpenGL and Qt.
+ - *goatprim*, a procedural 3D model (primitive) generator for quick testing.
+
+License
+-------
+Copyright (C) 2014-2023 John Tsiombikas <nuclear@member.fsf.org>
+
+Goat3D is free software, you may use, modify and/or redistribute it under the
+terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License v3, or at your option any later
+version published by the Free Software Foundation. See COPYING and
+COPYING.LESSER for details.
+
+Build
+-----
+To build and install libgoat3d on UNIX, run the usual:
+
+    ./configure
+    make
+    make install
+
+See `./configure --help` for a complete list of build-time options.
+
+To cross-compile for windows with mingw-w64, try the following incantation:
+
+    ./configure --prefix=/usr/i686-w64-mingw32
+    make CC=i686-w64-mingw32-gcc AR=i686-w64-mingw32-ar sys=mingw
+    make install sys=mingw
+
+The rest of the tools can be built and installed in the exact same way from
+their respective subdirectories.