-## Copyright
+## Supported environments
+
+Victrix Abyssi currently only supports the Linux kernel, GNU Make, and the GNU toolchain for C/C++. However, patches to support other copyleft or permissively licensed kernels and/or toolchains will usually be considered in a favorable light.
+
+Patches to build Victrix Abyssi for proprietary kernels and/or with proprietary toolchains will not be carried in-tree.
+
+Bugs and/or build failures which *only* occur when running on proprietary kernels and/or building with proprietary toolchains will be treated as being of 'wishlist' severity.
+
+## Library dependencies
+
+Victrix Abyssi currently depends on the following libraries:
+
+* libncursesw5 (i.e. "wide" NCurses) and libpanel
+* libxdg-basedir
-Victrix Abyssi's source code is copyright © 2005-2014 Martin Read, and is released under a BSD-style license as reproduced in the file COPYING.
+Patches, in the form of a separate implementation of display-(whatever).cc, to support other display/input libraries will be considered on their merits.
+
+## Build dependencies
+
+Victrix Abyssi currently depends on the following tools during the build process:
+
+* GNU Make
+* GNU Compiler Collection C++ and C compilers, version 4.7.2 or later
+* Perl 5
## Build notes
-<tt>\./configure</tt> must be run before
+On Unix-like systems, the standard build-from-source sequence for system-wide installation ( <tt>\./configure && make all && sudo make install</tt> ) should work as expected.
+
+If you wish to install the game to a directory owned by the user you are logged in as, run <tt>\./configure --prefix=/your/install/path && make all && make install</tt>
+
+## Copyright
+
+Victrix Abyssi's source code is copyright © 2005-2014 Martin Read, and is released under a BSD-style license as reproduced in the file COPYING in the top-level directory of the source tree.
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