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+# `libburn-sys`
+
+Low-level Rust bindings for libburn.
+
+You can find out more about the libburnia project, of which libburn is a part, by visiting
+<https://dev.lovelyhq.com/libburnia/web/wiki>
+
+This version of libburn-sys is based on libburn 1.5.6
+
+## Requirements
+
+Currently, libburn-sys does not support statically linking libburn into your application, and may never do.
+Instead, **you must have libburn 1.5.6 or greater installed** on your system so libburn-sys can dynamically
+link to it.
+
+Bindings for libburn are pregenerated for libburn-sys, so you shouldn't need bindgen's dependencies
+installed to start using libburn-sys.