From ed6283dca40d331a4af52e71e086ac8d77ffd973 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Mills <1290234+prologic@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2019 17:27:56 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] Add Development section to README documenting use of Protobuf
 and tooling required. #6

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 README.md | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4a491b0..a8b4610 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -21,6 +21,30 @@ For a more feature-complete Redis-compatible server, distributed key/value store
 * Low latecny
 * High throughput (See: [Performance](README.md#Performance)
 
+## Development
+
+1. Get the source:
+
+```#!bash
+$ git clone https://github.com/prologic/bitcask.git
+```
+
+2. Install required tools:
+
+This library uses [Protobuf](https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf) to serialize data on disk. Please follow the
+instructions for installing `protobuf` on your system. You will also need the
+following Go libraries/tools to generate Go code from Protobuf defs:
+
+3. Build the project:
+
+```#!bash
+$ make
+```
+
+This will invoke `go generate` and `go build`.
+
+- [protoc-gen-go](https://github.com/golang/protobuf)
+
 ## Install
 
 ```#!bash