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+Those are standalone ready-to-build applications to demonstrate ImGui.
+Unfortunately in 2015 it is still a massive pain to create and maintain portable build files.
+I choose to provide Visual Studio 10 .sln files and Makefile for Linux/OSX. 
+Please let me know if they don't work with your setup!
+You can probably just import the .cpp files into your own system and figure out the linkage from there.
+
 
 opengl_example/
     OpenGL example, using GLFW + fixed pipeline.