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@@ -6,6 +6,24 @@ A Settlers II inspired game written in Haskell
 
 Bugtracker/Wiki: http://redmine.pwning.de/projects/pioneers
 
+## Compiling
+
+1. Clone this repository
+2. Set up cabal-sandbox
+```
+$ cabal sandbox init
+$ cd deps
+$ ./getDeps.sh
+$ cd ..
+$ cabal sandbox add-source deps/hsSDL2
+```
+3. install libraries `sudo apt-get install libsdl2` - make sure libsdl2 is in version 2.0.1+ (shipped with Ubuntu since 14.04)
+4. install dependencies `cabal install --only-dependencies`
+5. build `cabal build`
+6. run `./Pioneers`
+
+Step 2 is likely to break in the future due to restructuring in hsSDL2. This will be updated accordingly then.
+
 ## Features
 
 Note, that most of it is just planned and due to change.