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+# Building
+This section contains the instruction on how to build the library and associated wrappers. We first explain how to build the Go library and then further explain the wrapper specific building process. As the Python wrapper is the only stable wrapper at the moment, this only consists of this wrapper language for now.
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+# Example: commands to build for Python
+This section gives an example on how to build and install the library from scratch (assuming you have all the dependencies). It builds the Go library and then builds and installs the Python wrapper.
+
+1. Clone the library
+```bash
+git clone https://github.com/jwijenbergh/eduvpn-common
+```
+
+2. Go to the library directory
+```bash
+cd eduvpn-common
+```
+
+3. Build the go library
+```bash
+make
+```
+
+4. Build the python wrapper
+```bash
+make -C wrappers/python
+```
+
+5. Install the wheel using pip
+```bash
+pip install wrappers/python/dist/eduvpncommon-0.1.0-py3-none-linux_x86_64.whl
+```
+Note that the name of your wheel changes on the platform and version.
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+# Building the Go library
+To build the Go library, you need the dependencies for your system installed. We will go over the needed dependencies for Linux and Windows. Afterwards, we explain the basic commands to build the library.
+
+## Dependencies
+### Linux
+To build the Go shared library using Linux you need the following dependencies:
+
+- [Go](https://go.dev/doc/install) 1.15 or later
+- [Gcc](https://gcc.gnu.org/)
+- [GNU Make](https://www.gnu.org/software/make/)
+- Dependencies for each wrapper you are interested in
+
+### Windows
+On Windows, you can install gcc and make (or even Go) via MinGW or Cygwin or use WSL. For MinGW:
+
+1. [Install MinGW](https://www.msys2.org/#installation) (you don't need to install any extra packages yet) and open some
+   MSYS2 terminal (e.g. from the start menu or one of the installed binaries)
+2. Install the [`make`](https://packages.msys2.org/package/make?repo=msys) package (`pacman -S make`) (or
+   e.g. [`mingw-w64-x86_64-make`](https://packages.msys2.org/package/mingw-w64-x86_64-make?repo=mingw64) and
+   use `mingw32-make` in the command line)
+3. To compile for x86_64:
+    1. Install the [`mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc`](https://packages.msys2.org/package/mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc?repo=mingw64)
+       package
+    2. Open the MinGW 64-bit console, via the start menu, or in your current
+       terminal: `path/to/msys64/msys2_shell.cmd -mingw64 -defterm -no-start -use-full-path`
+    3. Run the make commands in the project directory
+4. To compile for x86 (32-bit):
+    1. Install the [`mingw-w64-i686-gcc`](https://packages.msys2.org/package/mingw-w64-i686-gcc?repo=mingw32) package
+    2. Open the MinGW 32-bit console, via the start menu, or in your current
+       terminal: `path/to/msys64/msys2_shell.cmd -mingw32 -defterm -no-start -use-full-path`
+    3. Run the make commands in the project directory
+
+## Commands
+Before we can begin building the wrapper code, we need to build the Go code as a shared library. This section will tell you how to do so.
+
+To build the shared library for the current platform issue the following command in the root directory:
+
+```bash
+make
+```
+
+You can also build the shared library for a specified OS & architecture (example):
+
+```bash
+make GOOS=windows GOARCH=386
+```
+
+We use cgo to build a shared library, to list all platform supported by cgo issue `go tool dist list`.
+
+The shared library will be output in `exports/lib/`.
+
+For cross compiling, you usually need to specify the compiler, for example:
+
+```bash
+make GOOS=windows GOARCH=amd64 CC=x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc
+```
+
+For example, you can cross compile for Windows from Linux using [MinGW-w64](https://www.mingw-w64.org/downloads/).
+
+This shared library gets loaded by the different wrappers. To build the actual wrapper code, you need other build commands. This will be explained now
+
+### Cleaning
+To clean build the library and wrapper, issue the following command in the root directory:
+
+```bash
+make -j clean
+```
+
+Usually you won't need to do this, as changes in the library should automatically be incorporated in wrappers.
+Specify `CLEAN_ALL=1` to also remove downloaded dependencies for some wrappers. You can clean individual wrappers by
+executing clean in their directories, or specify `WRAPPERS=...`.
+
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+# Python Wrapper
+
+To build the python wrapper issue the following command (in the root directory of the eduvpn-common project):
+
+```bash
+make -C wrappers/python
+```
+
+This uses the makefile in `wrappers/python/Makefile` to build the python file into a wheel placed in `wrappers/python/dist/eduvpncommon-[version]-py3-none-[platform].whl`. Where version is the version of the library and platform is your current platform. Like Go you can also build for a specific platform:
+
+```bash
+make PLAT_NAME=win32
+```
+
+The wheel can be installed with `pip`:
+
+```bash
+pip install ./wrappers/python/dist/eduvpncommon-[version]-py3-none-[platform].whl
+```