From a7557be070a5133361d3516567e1bdaeab6092e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Bratanov <stefan.bratanov93@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2022 12:32:03 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] readme improvements

---
 bindings/java/.gitignore     | 4 +---
 bindings/java/README.md      | 6 +++---
 bindings/java/lib/.gitignore | 3 +++
 src/Makefile                 | 3 ++-
 4 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 bindings/java/lib/.gitignore

diff --git a/bindings/java/.gitignore b/bindings/java/.gitignore
index 63057cf..3c83e94 100644
--- a/bindings/java/.gitignore
+++ b/bindings/java/.gitignore
@@ -1,4 +1,2 @@
-lib/
 *.class
-*.o
-*.a
\ No newline at end of file
+*.o
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/bindings/java/README.md b/bindings/java/README.md
index 5d28838..6c476a6 100644
--- a/bindings/java/README.md
+++ b/bindings/java/README.md
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
-* Follow the instructions in the home README.md to create the libblst.a. 
-* JAVA_HOME environment variable is set to a jdk with an `include` folder containing jni.h file.
+* Follow the instructions in the [README.md](../../README.md) to install blst and C-KZG. 
+* JAVA_HOME environment variable is set to a JDK with an `include` folder containing a jni.h file.
 
 ## Windows
 
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ TBC
 ## Linux
 
 ```bash
-clang -O -Wall -shared -fPIC -I../../blst/bindings -I../../src/ -I${JAVA_HOME}/include -I${JAVA_HOME}/include/linux -o lib/libckzg4844jni.so c_kzg_4844_jni.c ../../src/c_kzg_4844.c ../../blst/libblst.a
+clang -O -Wall -shared -fPIC -I../../blst/bindings -I../../src/ -I${JAVA_HOME}/include -I${JAVA_HOME}/include/linux -o lib/libckzg4844jni.so c_kzg_4844_jni.c c_kzg_4844.o ../../lib/libblst.a
 ```
 
 ## Mac-OS
diff --git a/bindings/java/lib/.gitignore b/bindings/java/lib/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0bda782
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bindings/java/lib/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+*.dll
+*.so
+*.dylib
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/Makefile b/src/Makefile
index 5ea4cc7..e46d320 100644
--- a/src/Makefile
+++ b/src/Makefile
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ blst:
 	cp libblst.a ../lib && \
 	cp bindings/*.h ../inc
 
-# Copy make sure c_kzg_4844.o is built and copy it for the NodeJS bindings
+# Make sure c_kzg_4844.o is built and copy it for the NodeJS and Java bindings
 lib: c_kzg_4844.o Makefile
 	cp *.o ../bindings/node.js
+	cp *.o ../bindings/java