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authorAram Drevekenin <aram@poor.dev>2023-08-28 17:47:49 +0200
committerAram Drevekenin <aram@poor.dev>2023-08-28 17:47:49 +0200
commit24ce348bb22730abd018ce9fa2fac2cb20f7c026 (patch)
treece5b12460abffd7d1cc1e293c57541cb757f593b
parenta6f66b91f134d97fc6ae61b23b93e07a6c3f0fc6 (diff)
chore(repo): update build instructions
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@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ inside the repository, so you don't have to install additional dependencies.
To edit our manpage, the mandown crate (`cargo install --locked
mandown`) is used and the work is done on a markdown file in docs/MANPAGE.md.
+To build zellij, you'll need [`protoc`](https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf#protobuf-compiler-installation) installed. This is used to compile the .proto files into Rust assets. These protocol buffers are used for communication between Zellij and its plugins across the wasm boundary.
+
Here are some of the commands currently supported by the build system:
```sh