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@@ -4,4 +4,11 @@ Querydsl is a framework which enables the construction of type-safe SQL-like que
 
 Instead of writing queries as inline strings or externalizing them into XML files they are constructed via a fluent API.
 
+**How to build**
+
+Querydsl provides releases via public Maven repositories, but you can build the sources also yourself like this
+
+    cd querydsl-root
+    mvn -Pjenkins,all -DskipTests=true clean install 
+
 For more information visit the project homepage at http://www.querydsl.com/.