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 # Build Instructions
 
+## Requirements
+
+To be able to use `uvw`, users must provide the following system-wide tools:
+
+* A full-featured compiler that supports at least C++14
+* `libuv` version 1.9.0 or successive
+
+The requirements below are mandatory to compile the tests and to extract the documentation:
+
+* CMake version 3.4 or successive
+* Doxygen version 1.8 or successive
+
+Note that `libuv` is part of the dependencies of the project and it will be cloned by executing the script `deps.sh` (see below for further details).<br/>
+Because of that, users have not to install it to compile and execute the tests.
+
 ## Library
 
 `uvw` is a header-only library.<br/>