From 278ce9ee2061a37dc31d94abcb2a55ff83de6263 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicolas Kruse <nicolas@nonan.net>
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2025 16:52:33 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Added "Compile binary property database" step in the
 Developer Guide in the Readme

---
 README.md | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 495f668..2367860 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -218,6 +218,13 @@ in the current directory:
 pip install -e .[dev]
 ```
 
+Compile binary property database from text based files:
+
+```bash
+python thermo_data/combine_data.py thermo_data/combined_data.yaml thermo_data/nasa9*.yaml thermo_data/nasa9*.xml
+python thermo_data/compile_to_bin.py thermo_data/combined_data.yaml src/gaspype/data/therm_data.bin
+```
+
 Ensure that everything is set up correctly by running the tests:
 
 ```bash