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@@ -6,6 +6,14 @@ This is a CMake redistribution of the libeemd library. It is created for easy in
 
 
 
+To compile the library, use the following commands:
+
+```shell
+mkdir build && cd build && cmake .. && make install
+```
+
+
+
 Yi Zhang
 
 2021-11-20
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