From a3b3bf86ba9d88306049d30352288628c308a5fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jon Chambers <jon@signal.org>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2025 22:08:57 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Add a note about the FoundationDB client library requirement
 to the README

---
 README.md | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 5e9762b91..ddc4671d8 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ https://signal.org/docs/
 How to Build
 ------------
 
+This project uses [FoundationDB](https://www.foundationdb.org/) and requires the FoundationDB client library to be installed on the host system. With that in place, the server can be built and tested with:
+
 ```shell script
 $ ./mvnw clean test
 ```