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@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ check out the [installation guide](https://github.com/clangen/musikcube/wiki/ins
 
 be sure to also read through a [the user guide](https://github.com/clangen/musikcube/wiki/user-guide), which describes app's navigation paradigm and lists all the default keyboard shortcuts.
 
+if you want to build it from source, [the instructions are here](https://github.com/clangen/musikcube/wiki/building).
+
 # screenshots
 
 it looks something like this on windows: