of BiaWeb2 is to be as configuration-free as possible and hence most of the
customization for a specific website is within the templates themselves. The
option `-q` is quiet-mode, to suppress the messages.
+
+## Getting and compiling BiaWeb2
+
+BiaWeb2 works on *nix-like operating systems.
+
+To get BiaWeb2, clone the git repository (from the command line)
+
+ git clone https://gitlab.com/harishankarv/biaweb2.git
+
+To compile you require the following dependencies and a C++ compiler. Check your
+distribution package manager for more information
+
+* libmarkdown2 ([discount](https://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/discount/))
+* libfmt ([fmt](https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt))