From ff1ad9acaff1ff9ec802fe70681f8e2aa9a38903 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Ville=20Pietil=C3=A4?= <ville.pietila@amd.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2025 07:03:32 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add build instructions to builder Readme.

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 experimental/builder/README.md | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)

diff --git a/experimental/builder/README.md b/experimental/builder/README.md
index bdc4c59878..b68cd1399b 100644
--- a/experimental/builder/README.md
+++ b/experimental/builder/README.md
@@ -46,3 +46,27 @@ Draft of kernel description, to be iterated and aligned with existing CK convolu
 
   - **Hardware Optimization**  
     Captures architecture-specific choices (e.g., MFMA type, LDS usage, register pressure).
+
+## 🔨 Building the CK builder
+
+
+For the CMake configure step, add an additional option
+
+```cmake
+-D MIOPEN_REQ_LIBS_ONLY=ON
+```
+
+Note that this disables building some of the other CK assets such as CK profiler.
+
+The builder tests depend on `gMock` that may not be automatically installed on the standard CK development environments. 
+The `gMock` library can be installed via `apt`
+
+```bash
+sudo apt install libgmock-dev
+```
+
+Currently, the entrypoint to the CK builder is the test suite that can be built via dedicated CMake target
+
+```bash
+make -j test_conv_builder
+```