[GitHub] [incubator-pekko] He-Pin commented on a diff in pull request #323: [DRAFT] add build instructions

["He-Pin (via GitHub)" <gi...@apache.org>]

He-Pin commented on code in PR #323:
URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-pekko/pull/323#discussion_r1199915292


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README.md:
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@@ -13,7 +13,16 @@ Pekko is a fork of [Akka](https://github.com/akka/akka) 2.6.x, prior to the Akka
 Reference Documentation
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-**TODO add documentation links**
+See https://pekko.apache.org for the documentation including the API docs.
+
+Building from Source
+--------------------
+
+* You will need to install [sbt](https://www.scala-sbt.org/) if you don't already have it installed
+* Use git to clone the [repo](https://github.com/apache/incubator-pekko) or download a source release from https://pekko.apache.org
+* Open a command window and change directory to the directory where you installed the source
+* `sbt test` will build the jars and run the unit tests
+* `sbt docs/paradox` will build the docs

Review Comment:
   There are some already in the sbt help messages too. more details can be added to the Contributor guide.



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