From b746854b2d33a245a1cf7de3f535a594cc20bd64 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jason Ly <jasonly7@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2026 14:24:26 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] readme linux instructions

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 README.md | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f207c6b..f1be42a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -34,6 +34,37 @@ learndir/
 # TODO
 - work on linux version
 
+## Linux
+
+# Install the following if not already installed
+sudo apt update
+sudo apt install git
+sudo apt install cmake
+sudo apt install build-essential cmake # build-essential contains gcc,g++ and make
+apt update && apt install -y libgl1 libglx0
+
+# create all the directories needed
+mkdir workdir && cd workdir
+
+curl -LO https://downloads.bellarender.com/bella_engine_sdk-25.3.0-win32.zip
+tar -xf bella_engine_sdk-25.3.0-win32.zip
+
+# Build Entropia File System Watcher
+git clone https://github.com/SpartanJ/efsw.git
+cd efsw
+mkdir -p build
+cd build
+cmake ..
+make -j$(nproc)
+
+cd ../..
+git clone https://git.indoodle.com/jason/joomer-efsw-file-bsz-monitoring.git
+wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nothings/stb/master/stb_image.h
+wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nothings/stb/master/stb_image_write.h
+make all -j$(nproc)
+mkdir bin/Linux/release/test
+bin/Linux/release/joomer-efsw-file-bsz-monitoring
+
 ## Windows 
 - Download Visual Studio Community Edition 
 - Run VisualStudioSetup.exe