From e20dc2133ddd4183579fdfa4b714c64e0d3ae9ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: nahuhh <50635951+nahuhh@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2025 03:14:22 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] readme: use $HOME and ../release folder (#158)

---
 README.md | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 309425b..8dfbb7e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -102,10 +102,14 @@ invokes cmake commands as needed.
     cd monero-lws
     git checkout develop
     mkdir build && cd build
-    cmake -DMONERO_SOURCE_DIR=~/monero -DMONERO_BUILD_DIR=~/monero/build ..
+    cmake -DMONERO_SOURCE_DIR=$HOME/monero -DMONERO_BUILD_DIR=$HOME/monero/build/release ..
     make
     ```
 
+    The `-DMONERO_BUILD_DIR` flag assumes that Monero was built with the environment
+    variable `USE_SINGLE_BUILDDIR=1` set. If this is not the case, adjust the path
+    as necessary.
+
     *Optional*: If your machine has several cores and enough memory, enable
     parallel build by running `make -j<number of threads>` instead of `make`. For
     this to be worthwhile, the machine should have one core and about 2GB of RAM