From a9e161181cb643cc86c508f27897e82bf6c9e554 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: smallmodel <15067410+smallmodel@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2025 22:41:39 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Improve compiling documentation

---
 docs/compiling.md | 20 +++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/compiling.md b/docs/compiling.md
index 07c335a4..41b4f445 100644
--- a/docs/compiling.md
+++ b/docs/compiling.md
@@ -37,9 +37,13 @@ sudo apt-get install -y cmake ninja-build clang lld flex bison libsdl2-dev libop
 Example with **CMake** and **ninja-build** installed:
 ```sh
 mkdir .cmake && cd .cmake
-cmake -G Ninja ../
+cmake ../
+cmake --build .
+cmake --install .
 ```
 
+Usually binaries get installed inside the `/usr/local/lib/openmohaa` directory.
+
 Other compilers can be specified by appending `-DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=/path/to/compiler -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=path/to/compiler` to the CMake command-line.
 
 ## Compiling for Windows
@@ -50,8 +54,6 @@ Visual Studio (2019 or 2022) is generally preferred.
 - Get OpenAL: https://github.com/kcat/openal-soft/releases/latest rename `soft_oal.dll` to `OpenAL64.dll` on 64-bit and `OpenAL32.dll` on 32-bit
 - Get cURL: https://github.com/curl/curl
 
-Append `-DFLEX_EXECUTABLE=...\win_flex.exe -DBISON_EXECUTABLE=...\win_bison.exe -DOPENAL_INCLUDE_DIR="path/to/oal/include" -DOPENAL_LIBRARY="path/to/oal"` to the CMake command-line to use the package from the link above.
-
 Optionally, The cURL library can be compiled with the following CMake commands:
 ```
 cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="E:\Src\openmoh\openmohaa\thirdparty\curl\build\install" -DCURL_USE_LIBPSL=OFF -DCURL_USE_SCHANNEL=ON -B build
@@ -59,6 +61,18 @@ cmake --build build --config Release
 cmake --install build --config Release
 ```
 
+Append `-DFLEX_EXECUTABLE=...\win_flex.exe -DBISON_EXECUTABLE=...\win_bison.exe -DOPENAL_INCLUDE_DIR="path/to/oal/include" -DOPENAL_LIBRARY="path/to/oal"` to the CMake command-line to compile the project.
+
+Example after cloning the repository:
+```sh
+mkdir .cmake && cd .cmake
+cmake -DFLEX_EXECUTABLE=path/to/win_flex.exe -DBISON_EXECUTABLE=path/to/win_bison.exe -DOPENAL_INCLUDE_DIR="path/to/oal/include" -DOPENAL_LIBRARY="path/to/oal" ../
+cmake --build .
+cmake --install .
+```
+
+Usually binaries get installed inside the `Program Files (x86)` folder.
+
 afterwards you can can append `-DCURL_ROOT=path\to\curl\install` to specify the install path to cURL.
 
 ## Tweaking the build