From 41ffa101238e55e2443518949e343c470307d36d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 14:45:33 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] README: provide basic instructions for building & installing

Fixes #12.
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 README.md | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 54be813..e53bf11 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -2,3 +2,27 @@
 a C++ libary to parse EBML files
 
 Specifications may be rendered at http://matroska-org.github.io/libebml/
+
+# Building and installing
+
+## Building a released version
+
+libebml is based on autoconf and automake and requires only a C++
+compiler. This means that the normal build process consists of the
+usual three steps:
+
+1. Configuration: `./configure`
+2. Building: `make`
+3. Installation (run this as root): `make install`
+
+## Building from git
+
+If you're building from git you must have the GNU autotools
+(`autoconf`, `automake`, `libtoolize`) installed. Then run the
+following two commands:
+
+1. `libtoolize`
+2. `autoreconf -vi`
+
+Afterwards continue with the steps listed for building a released
+version.