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 # Information
 
-These files are used for the control of the LimeSDR based spectrometer. 
+These files are used for the control of the LimeSDR based spectrometer.
 With permission from the author Andrin Doll, the files are included in this repository.
 
 A. Doll; Pulsed and continuous-wave magnetic resonance spectroscopy using a low-cost software-defined radio. AIP Advances 1 November 2019; 9 (11): 115110. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5127746
+
+## Building
+
+The software is written in C++ and uses the LimeSuite and HDF5 libraries. The software is built using CMake.
+
+On Debian-based systems, the following packages are required to build the software:
+
+```
+sudo apt-get install g++ cmake liblimesuite-dev libhdf5-dev
+```
+
+On Arch Linux, the following packages are required to build the software:
+
+```
+sudo pacman -S gcc cmake limesuite hdf5
+```
+
+To build the software, run the following commands in the root directory of the repository:
+
+```
+cmake -B build
+cmake --build build
+```
+
+This will create an executable called `limedriver` in the `build` directory.