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@@ -14,6 +14,17 @@ This readme briefly describes the functionality of our LLVM toolchain and how to
 Ubuntu >= 16.04  
 MacOS X >= 10.15.4  
 
+### Environmental preparation 
+
+ubuntu 
+```
+sudo apt-get install build-essential swig python3-dev libedit-dev libncurses5-dev binutils-dev gcc-multilib  
+```
+mac 
+```
+brew install swig  git-lfs java coreutils wget 
+```
+
 </br>
 
 ### Get Code