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@@ -7,4 +7,16 @@ If at first it doesn't compile, just try a second time!
 Note that you'll need the `pyyaml` package, which may be installed as follows:
 `pip install pyyaml`.
 
+And the `docutils` package:
+`pip install docutils`.
+
 [docs]: http://cuckoo-monitor.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
+
+## Step by step of compiling the C files inside tests/
+1. `make` in the root directory
+2. `cd test/`
+3. `./unittest.py` run the unittests one time in the test/ directory
+4. `make` in the test/ folder
+
+The compiled executeables are now inside the test/x64/ and test/x86/ folder.
+