From 49de208cca93d92bc804c5eafde145b561c79a02 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: kannibalox <kannibalox@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2024 10:12:50 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Update instructions for building from source

---
 Installing.md | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Installing.md b/Installing.md
index 3f2e946..70975d2 100644
--- a/Installing.md
+++ b/Installing.md
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 **Contents**
 
  * [Installing](#installing)
-   * [Building](#building)
+   * [Building Building from stable release tarballs](#building-from-stable-release-tarballs)
+   * [Building from source](#building-from-source)
    * [Non-blocking hostname lookup in curl](#non-blocking-hostname-lookup-in-curl)
  * [Compilation Help](#compilation-help)
    * [libtorrent.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory](#libtorrent-so-5-cannot-open-shared-object-file-no-such-file-or-directory)
@@ -15,11 +16,48 @@
 
 # Installing
 
+Dependencies:
+* pkg-config
+* libcurl (c-ares support for asynchronous DNS lookups is recommend)
+* zlib
+* xmlrpc-c (optional, for XMLRPC support in rtorrent, most guides will assume XMLRPC is desired)
+* cppunit (optional, only used for testing with `make check`)
 
-## Building
+## Building from stable release tarballs
 
-`./configure; make; make install`
+Note that if you already have a `libtorrent` package installed from your package manager, it may take precedence when compiling rtorrent. Simply uninstalling the package prior to building is the easiest way to ensure a clean build environment.
 
+```
+wget https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent-archive/raw/master/libtorrent-0.13.8.tar.gz
+# Or with curl: curl -sSLO https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent-archive/raw/master/libtorrent-0.13.8.tar.gz
+tar xzvf libtorrent-0.13.8.tar.gz
+cd libtorrent-0.13.8/
+./configure && make && make install
+
+cd ../
+
+wget https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent-archive/raw/master/rtorrent-0.9.8.tar.gz
+# Or with curl: curl -sSLO https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent-archive/raw/master/rtorrent-0.9.8.tar.gz
+tar xzvf rtorrent-0.9.8.tar.gz
+cd rtorrent-0.9.8/
+./configure --with-xmlrpc-c && make && make install
+```
+
+## Building from source
+
+In addition to the above dependencies, the [autoconf](https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/) tools are required to build from source. Nearly all distributions should have a package available.
+
+```
+git clone https://github.com/rakshasa/libtorrent.git
+cd libtorrent/
+autoreconf -fi && ./configure && make && make install
+
+cd ../
+
+git clone https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent.git
+cd rtorrent/
+autoreconf -fi && ./configure --with-xmlrpc-c && make && make install
+```
 
 ## Non-blocking hostname lookup in curl