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 [(Back to top)](#table-of-contents)
 
+honeysuckle requires CMake and the Lua 5.1 development files.
+
+First, [download a honeysuckle release](/projects/honeysuckle/releases), 
+and then do
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 ```bash
 mkdir build
 cd build