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 This is flash, a super fast BSE solver.
 
 # Install:
+## Use `make`:
 To build **Flash** with debug flags, release flags and the documentation type in the root directory
 ```bash
 make 
@@ -13,6 +14,16 @@ make documentation
 ```
 If you wish to make build the documentation, make sure that doxygen is installed.
 
+## The classic way
+You can avoid using the `Makefile` and build the code with cmake
+```bash
+mkdir build
+cd build
+cmake ../dev/
+cmake --build
+```
+The make commands are doing exactly that.
+
 ## Run unit tests:
 Run all tests:
 ```