diff --git a/README.asciidoc b/README.asciidoc
index e377d8d..94fab0c 100644
--- a/README.asciidoc
+++ b/README.asciidoc
@@ -77,13 +77,13 @@ group.number = ["integer_literal", "float_literal", "negative_literal"]
 
 If you are using nix, the `flake.nix` file provides an attribute `packages.kak-tree` resolving to a kakoune plugin one can use in home-manager's `programs.kakoune.plugins` or build yourself with `kakoune.override { plugins = ... }`.
 
-If not, you will have to set up the build environment yourself. Since we use static linking, compile each tree sitter plugin to a statically linked library to `lib/libtree-sitter-LANG.a`, and then build:
+If not, you will have to set up the build environment yourself. Since we use static linking, compile each tree sitter plugin to a statically linked library to `./sitters/libtree-sitter-LANG.a`, and then build:
 
 ```sh
 $ [ compile tree sitter for i.e. javascript... ]
-$ ls lib
+$ ls sitters
 libtree-sitter-javascript.a
-$ cargo build --no-default-features --features javascript --release
+$ SITTERS=./sitters cargo build --no-default-features --features javascript --release
 [ ... ]
 $ ./target/release/kak-tree --do-you-understand javascript
 Known language. Trying to load