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+# Hotwire
+Cross-platform dlopen implementation for C/C++
+
+
+## About
+Hotwire provides a cross-platform API for loading DLLs, its based on the UNIX ```dlopen()``` API.
+This project was mainly built for the fusion engine, but is avalible under the BSD license
+
+## Running examples