From 80c48ebe815cd6297d62b021c939c9c657174f30 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Delyan Angelov <delian66@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2020 21:07:48 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] README.md: add instructions for libatomic installation
 (needed for sync/channels)

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 README.md | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 92ccc4d692..36ca359b8a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -198,6 +198,20 @@ Fedora:
 sudo dnf install openssl-devel
 ```
 
+## V sync
+V's `sync` module and channel implementation uses libatomic.
+It is most likely already installed on your system, but if not,
+you can install it, by doing the following:
+```bash
+MacOS: already installed
+
+Debian/Ubuntu:
+sudo apt install libatomic1
+
+Fedora/CentOS/RH:
+sudo dnf install libatomic-static
+```
+
 ## V UI
 
 <a href="https://github.com/vlang/ui">