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 # ImHex
 
-A Hex editor written in C++ using OpenGL, GLFW and Dear ImGui
+A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people that value their eye sight when working at 3 AM.
+
+## Features
+
+- Featureful hex view
+  - Byte patching
+  - Patch management
+  - Copy bytes as feature
+    - Bytes
+    - Hex string
+    - C, C++, C#, Rust, Python, Java & JavaScript array
+    - ASCII-Art hex view
+    - HTML self contained div
+  - String and hex search
+  - Colorful highlighting
+  - Goto from start, end and current cursor position
+- Custom C++-like pattern language for parsing highlighting a file's content
+  - Automatic loading based on MIME type
+  - arrays, pointers, structs, unions, enums, bitfields, using declarations, litte and big endian support
+  - Useful error messages, syntax highlighting and error marking
+- Data importing
+  - Base64 files
+  - IPS and IPS32 patches
+- Data exporting 
+  - IPS and IPS32 patches
+- Data Exporting
+- Data inspector allowing interpretation of data as many different types (little and big endian)
+- Huge file support with fast and efficient loading
+- Strings search
+  - Copying of strings
+  - Copying of demangled strings
+- File hashing support
+  - CRC16 and CRC32 with custom initial values and polynomials
+  - MD4, MD5
+  - SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512
+- Disassembler supporting many different architectures
+  - ARM32 (ARM, Thumb, Cortex-M, aarch32)
+  - ARM64
+  - MIPS (MIPS32, MIPS64, MIPS32R6, Micro)
+  - x86 (16 bit, 32 bit, 64 bit)
+  - PowerPC (32 bit, 64 bit)
+  - Sparc
+  - SystemZ
+  - XCore
+  - 68K
+  - TMS320C64x
+  - 680X
+  - Etherium
+- Bookmarks
+  - Region highlighting
+  - Comments
+- Data Analyzer
+  - File magic based file parser and MIME type database
+  - Byte distribution graph
+  - Entropy graph
+  - Highest and avarage entropy
+  - Encrypted / Compressed file detection
+- Helpful tools
+  - Itanium and MSVC demangler
+  - ASCII table
+  - Regex replacer
+  - Mathematical expression evaluator (Calculator)
+  - Hexadecimal Color picker
+- Built-in cheat sheet for pattern language and Math evaluator
+- Doesn't burn out your retinas when used in late-night sessions
 
 ## Screenshots
 
 ![](https://i.imgur.com/xH7xJ4g.png)
 ![](https://i.imgur.com/fhVJYEa.png)
+
+## Compiling
+
+This guide assumes you're either on Windows using mingw or on Arch Linux
+
+The following libraries are needed to compile ImHex. All of them can be found in the default pacman repositories
+```
+GLFW3                                             ( (sudo) pacman -S glfw )
+libmagic, libgnurx, libtre, libintl, libiconv     ( (sudo) pacman -S file )
+libcrypto                                         ( (sudo) pacman -S openssl )
+capstone                                          ( (sudo) pacman -S capstone )
+libLLVMDemangle                                   ( (sudo) pacman -S llvm llvm-libs )
+nlohmann json                                     ( (sudo) pacman -S nlohmann-json )
+Python3                                           ( (sudo) pacman -S python3 )
+
+All in one: sudo pacman -S glfw file openssl capstone llvm llvm-libs nlohmann-json python3
+```
+
+After all the libraries are installed, run the following commands to build ImHex
+```
+mkdir build
+cd build
+cmake ..
+make -j
+```
+
+On Windows, download the python standard library from https://github.com/python/cpython/tree/master/Lib and place the files and folders in `lib/python3.8` next to your built executable. Don't forget to also copy the `libpython3.8.dll` from your mingw setup next to the executable.
+
+On both Windows and Linux, copy the files from `python_libs` in the `lib` folder next to your built executable.
+Place your magic databases in the `magic` folder next to your built executable
+Place your patterns in the `pattern` folder next to your built executable
+Place your include pattern files in the `include` folder next to your built executable