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Expand Up @@ -458,6 +458,12 @@ used in ``python.sh``:
.. _wasmtime: https://wasmtime.dev
.. _WebAssembly: https://webassembly.org

Android
-------

Build and test instructions for Android are maintained in the CPython repository
at Android/README.md.

iOS
---

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Install dependencies
====================

This section explains how to install additional extensions (for example, ``zlib``)
on Linux, macOS and iOS.
This section explains how to install libraries which are needed to compile
some of CPython's modules (for example, ``zlib``).

.. tab:: Linux

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On Windows, extensions are already included and built automatically.

.. tab:: Android

The BeeWare project maintains `scripts for building Android dependencies
<https://github.com/beeware/cpython-android-source-deps>`__, and distributes
`pre-compiled binaries
<https://github.com/beeware/cpython-android-source-deps/releases>`__ for each
of them. These binaries are automatically downloaded and used by the CPython
build script at Android/android.py.

.. tab:: iOS

As with CPython itself, the dependencies for CPython must be compiled for
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