From f00d359a6729ab52a300b8ef8a738f3faa1006af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeffrey Morgan <jmorganca@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2025 11:16:27 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] docs: add section in development.md on library detection
 (#8855)

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 docs/development.md | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/development.md b/docs/development.md
index 3e2ed49ba..618e98e15 100644
--- a/docs/development.md
+++ b/docs/development.md
@@ -118,3 +118,14 @@ To run tests, use `go test`:
 ```
 go test ./...
 ```
+
+## Library detection
+
+Ollama looks for acceleration libraries in the following paths relative to the `ollama` executable:
+
+* `./lib/ollama` (Windows)
+* `../lib/ollama` (Linux)
+* `.` (macOS)
+* `build/lib/ollama` (for development)
+
+If the libraries are not found, Ollama will not run with any acceleration libraries.
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