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+# mod_skel_rs
+
+The goal of this project is to provide a way for rust to be used in the course of freeswitch plugin development
+
+## Building
+
+The `build.rs` attempts to link against the system `<switch.h` and `libfreeswitch.so`.
+Make sure `libfreeswitch-dev` is installed on debian based systems
+Or `freeswitch-devel` is installed for RHEL based systems
+
+Most likely though none of those packages exist and you need to build freeswitch from source and run `make install`
+
+Once freeswitch is installed on your system you can then run
+
+`cargo build --release`
+