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+ # Platform libraries
+
+  ## Overview
+
+To provide access to user's native operating system services,
+`Kotlin/Native` distribution includes a set of prebuilt libraries specific to
+each target. We call them **Platform Libraries**.
+
+  ### POSIX bindings
+
+For all `Unix` or `Windows` based targets (including `Android` and
+`iPhone`) we provide the `posix` platform lib. It contains bindings
+to platform's implementation of `POSIX` standard.
+
+To use the library just 
+
+    import platform.posix.*
+
+The only target for which it is not available is [WebAssembly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebAssembly).
+
+Note that the content of `platform.posix` is NOT identical on
+different platforms, in the same way as different `POSIX` implementations
+are a little different.
+
+  ### OS specific libraries
+
+We've gone a little further and provided access to more specific
+native OS services. One needs to import the proper packages
+on each of the platform. Choose what matches your target platform:
+
+    import platform.osx.*
+
+    import platform.linux.*
+
+    import platform.windows.*
+
+    import platform.android.*
+
+    import platform.ios.*
+
+  ### Popular native libraries
+
+There are many more platform libraries available for host and
+cross-compilation targets.  `Kotlin/Native` distribution provides access to
+`OpenGL`, `SDL`, `zlib` and other popular native libraries on
+applicable platforms.
+
+On Apple platforms `objc` library is provided for interoperability with [Objective-C](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective-C).
+
+Inspect the contents of `dist/klib/platform/$target` of the distribution for the details.
+
+  ## Availability by default
+
+The packages from platfrom libraries are available by default. No
+special link flags need to be specified to use them. `Kotlin/Native`
+compiler automatically detects which of the platform libraries have
+been accessed and automatically links the needed libraries.
+
+On the other hand, the platform libs in the distribution are merely
+just wrappers and bindings to the native libraries.  That means the
+native libraries themselves (`.so`, `.a`, `.dylib`, `.dll` etc)
+should be installed on the machine.
+
+  ## Examples
+
+`Kotlin/Native` installation provides a wide spectrum of examples
+demonstrating the use of platform libraries. 
+See [samples](https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-native/tree/master/samples) for details.
+
+
diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
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@@ -366,6 +366,7 @@ task bundle(type: (isWindows()) ? Zip : Tar) {
         include 'INTEROP.md'
         include 'RELEASE_NOTES.md'
         include 'GRADLE_PLUGIN.md'
+        include 'PLATFORM_LIBS.md'
         exclude '**/gradle.properties'
         exclude '**/settings.gradle'
         exclude '**/build'