From efcf95d2bc3bd3acdc8a08fc776a62d38bc6dc8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: NatureFreshMilk <naturefreshmilk@github.com>
Date: Wed, 8 May 2019 14:58:48 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] instructions for building the mapserver locally

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 doc/building.md | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 readme.md       |  1 +
 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 doc/building.md

diff --git a/doc/building.md b/doc/building.md
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index 0000000..d4eab4f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/building.md
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+
+# Building the mapserver
+
+Instructions to build the mapserver from source
+
+## Build dependencies
+
+* go >= 1.11
+
+Ubuntu install: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Ubuntu
+
+## Compile
+
+
+Working directory: */server*
+
+```bash
+# generate the static web files
+go generate
+
+# build the binary for the current playtform
+go build
+
+# (optionally) run the unit-tests
+go test ./...
+
+```
+
diff --git a/readme.md b/readme.md
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--- a/readme.md
+++ b/readme.md
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ Realtime mapserver for [Minetest](https://minetest.net)
 # Documentation
 
 * [Installation](doc/install.md)
+* [Building](doc/building.md)
 * [Mapserver mod](doc/mod.md)
 * [Parameters](doc/params.md)
 * [Search](doc/search.md)