From d0ca841f41c580a5084375e8b62f1dcc77d0d3f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: scivision <scivision@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2025 11:11:33 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] doc: use modern CMake invocation

---
 README.md            | 7 +++----
 docs/src/install.rst | 5 ++---
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4c42e9c4..a90b7ff0 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -23,15 +23,14 @@ brew install cmake
 To build, run the following commands:
 
 ```shell
-mkdir build && cd build
-cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
-make -j
+cmake -B build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
+cmake --build build
 ```
 
 From the `build/` directory, you can run an [example](examples/example.c)
 that uses MLX C with `./example`.
 
-## Contributing 
+## Contributing
 
 Check out the [contribution guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md) for more information
 on contributing to MLX C. See the
diff --git a/docs/src/install.rst b/docs/src/install.rst
index 79949658..718972a3 100644
--- a/docs/src/install.rst
+++ b/docs/src/install.rst
@@ -11,9 +11,8 @@ To build MLX C, run the following commands:
 
 .. code-block:: shell
 
-  mkdir build && cd build/
-  cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
-  make -j
+  cmake -B build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
+  cmake --build build
 
 MLX C will fetch `MLX <https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx>`_ under the hood,
 compile it, and then compile the C API.