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+<h2>Pre-compiled binary releases?</h2>
+
+<p>
+Due to the diversity of platforms in use, we don't currently
+have any pre-compiled binary releases of YARP.  Compiling from
+source is what you need to do.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+There are a few use cases where people just want to run the yarp
+<a href="user/html/yarp.html">companion utility</a>, or some yarp based program (such as
+a <a href="http://people.csail.mit.edu/paulfitz/pub/fitzpatrick07towards.pdf">humanoid interface, or a simulator</a>)
+rather than use YARP as a library for their own code.
+So we are looking at making binary releases.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+There is a partial, experimental binary version of yarp and a humanoid
+simulator for Windows here: <a
+href="http://eris.liralab.it/yarp/downloads/yarp/win32/">experimental
+win32 binary</a>.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+There is a partial, experimental binary verion of yarp for i86 linux 
+here: <a
+href="http://eris.liralab.it/yarp/downloads/yarp/linux-i386/">experimental
+Linux i86 binary</a>.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Your mileage will vary.
+</p>
+
 
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