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 ### Build Steps
 
-1. Download the boost source code to ./external/boost-sdk
-2. Download the OpenSSL source code to ./external/openssl-sdk
-3.	Build dependent libraries (boost, hidapi, libsodium, monero-core, and OpenSSL) and place .a files in corresponding folders in ./external-libs per CMakeLists.txt.
-    - Monero Core: Modify CMakeLists.txt: `option(BUILD_GUI_DEPS "Build GUI dependencies." ON)`.  Build twice to create libwallet_merged.a.
-    - Todo: document/automate further
-4. Build libmonero-cpp.dylib to ./build: `./bin/build-libmonero-cpp.sh`
+These build steps aspire to be automated further.
+
+1. Setup Boost
+    1. Download and extract the boost 1.69.0 source code zip from https://www.boost.org/users/download/ to ./external/boost-sdk/.
+    2. `cd ./external/boost-sdk/`
+    3. `./bootstraph.sh`
+    4. `./b2`
+    5. Copy .a files from ./external/boost-sdk/bin.v2/libs/*/link-static/* to ./external-libs/boost according to CMakeLists.txt.
+2. Setup OpenSSL
+    1. Download and extract the latest boost source code zip from https://github.com/openssl/openssl to ./external/openssl-sdk/.
+    2. Build for your system.<br>
+       Mac: installed through boost at /usr/local/opt/openssl/lib
+    3. Copy libcrypto.a and libssl.a ./external-libs/openssl.
+3. Setup Monero Core
+    1. Initialize submodules: `git submodule update --init --recursive`
+    2. cd ./submodules/monero-core
+    3. Modify CMakeLists.txt: `option(BUILD_GUI_DEPS "Build GUI dependencies." ON)`.
+    4. Build twice to create libwallet_merged.a in addition to other .a libraries: `make release-static -j8`.
+    5. Copy .a files from ./submodules/monero-core/build/release/* to ./external-libs/monero-core according to CMakeLists.txt.
+4. Setup hidapi
+    1. Download the latest hidapi source code from https://github.com/signal11/hidapi.
+    2. Build hidapi for your system.<br>
+       Mac requires autoreconf: `brew install automake`
+    3. Copy libhidapi.a to ./external-libs/hidapi.
+5. Setup libsodium
+    1. Build libsodium for your system.
+    2. Copy libsodium.a to ./external-libs/libsodium.<br>
+       Mac: installed through homebrew at /usr/local/Cellar/libsodium/1.0.17/lib/libsodium.a
+6. Build libmonero-cpp.dylib to ./build: `./bin/build-libmonero-cpp.sh`.
 
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