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 - [Installation and configuration](docs/installation.md)
 - [Development and testing](docs/development.md)
+- [Compiling and packaging](docs/compiling.md)
 - [Compatibility mode with mysql-admutils](docs/mysql-admutils-compatibility.md)
 - [Use with NixOS](docs/nixos.md)
 - [SUID/SGID mode](docs/suid-sgid-mode.md)
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+# Compiling and packaging
+
+This document describes how to compile `muscl` from source code, along with other related tasks.
+
+## Build
+
+To just compile muscl, there is not many special steps needed. You need to have a working Rust toolchain installed.
+
+```bash
+# Compile in debug mode
+cargo build
+ls target/debug # muscl, mysql-dbadm, mysql-useradm, ...
+
+# Compile in release mode
+cargo build --release
+ls target/release # muscl, mysql-dbadm, mysql-useradm, ...
+
+# Compile in release mode with link time optimization (only used for distribution builds)
+cargo build --profile release-lto
+ls target/release-lto # muscl, mysql-dbadm, mysql-useradm, ...
+```
+
+## Generating completions
+
+> [!NOTE]
+> This happens automatically when building the deb package, so you can skip this step if that's the goal.
+
+In order to generate shell completions that work correctly, you want to put `muscl` (or alias symlinks) in your `$PATH`.
+
+```bash
+cargo build --release
+(
+  PATH="$(pwd)/target/release:$PATH"
+  mkdir -p completions/bash
+  mkdir -p completions/zsh
+  mkdir -p completions/fish
+
+  muscl completions --shell bash > completions/bash/muscl.bash
+  muscl completions --shell zsh > completions/zsh/_muscl
+  muscl completions --shell fish > completions/fish/muscl.fish
+)
+```
+
+Due to a [bug in clap](https://github.com/clap-rs/clap/issues/1764), you will also need to edit the completion files for the aliases.
+
+```bash
+sed -i 's/muscl/mysql-dbadm/g' assets/completions/{mysql-dbadm.bash,mysql-dbadm.fish,_mysql-dbadm}
+sed -i 's/muscl/mysql-useradm/g' assets/completions/{mysql-useradm.bash,mysql-useradm.fish,_mysql-useradm}
+```
+
+## Bundling into a deb package
+
+We have a script that automates the process of building a deb package for Debian-based systems.
+
+Before running this, you will need to install `cargo-deb` and make sure you have `dpkg-deb` available on your system.
+
+```bash
+# Install cargo-deb if you don't have it already
+cargo install cargo-deb
+
+# Run the script to create the deb package
+./create-deb.sh
+
+# Inspect the resulting deb package
+dpkg --contents target/debian/muscl_*.deb
+dpkg --info target/debian/muscl_*.deb
+```
+
+The program will be built with the `release-lto` profile, so it can be a bit slower to build than a normal build.
+
+## Compiling with CI
+
+We have a pipeline that builds the deb package for a set of different distributions.
+
+If you have access, you can trigger a build manually here: https://git.pvv.ntnu.no/Projects/muscl/actions?workflow=publish-deb.yml