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+The program is build with Qt 6.3 using QtCreator and the Visual Studio 2019 C++ compiler.
+Only 64-bits builds are actively maintained.
+
+[Documentation](https://eelke.gitlab.io/pgLab/) is generated automatically when a commit is tagged. It also includes releasenotes.
+The release notes use collected from git using [reno](https://docs.openstack.org/reno/latest/index.html).
+
+## Dependencies
+
+- boost
+- botan
+- fmt
+- googletest
+- libpq
+