diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index b2d857e..8e7ad1f 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -22,10 +22,14 @@ by using the "compact" utility on Windows, with one of the options below # Installation -The plugin can be built by running `./configure && make`. The build system must -be able to find the NTFS-3G library and headers. On some platforms this may -require that the "ntfs-3g-dev" package or similar be installed in addition to -the main "ntfs-3g" package. +First, if you're building from the git repository instead of from a release +tarball, you'll need to generate the `configure` script by running +`autoreconf -i`. This requires GNU autoconf, automake, and libtool. + +The plugin can then be built by running `./configure && make`. The build system +must be able to find the NTFS-3G library and headers. On some platforms this +may require that the "ntfs-3g-dev" package or similar be installed in addition +to the main "ntfs-3g" package. After compiling, run `make install` to install the plugin to the NTFS-3G plugin directory, which will be a subdirectory "ntfs-3g" of the system library