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+# Testing sentencepiece
+
+The commands below are tested in the poolside-sentencepiece Docker image
+([Dockerfile](https://github.com/poolsideai/orchestrator/blob/main/encoder/Dockerfile.dev)).
+
+## Build
+
+For a clean build, delete the build folder if one already exists. Then run the
+following command which uses `ninja-build`:
+
+```bash
+cmake -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo -D SPM_ENABLE_TCMALLOC=on \
+ -D SPM_ENABLE_NFKC_COMPILE=on -D SPM_ENABLE_SHARED=off \
+ -D SPM_SANITIZE=off -D SPM_DISABLE_LTO=off \
+ -S . -B build -G Ninja
+```
+
+Note: The `-S` option specifies path to source, and `-B` specifies path to
+build.
+
+Then you have to call the following command to actually build the targets.
+
+```
+cmake --build build
+```
+
+## Test
+
+For testing, you have to build the project as before, but you have to pass in
+`-DSPM_BUILD_TEST=ON` to build the test targets:
+
+```bash
+cmake -D SPM_BUILD_TEST=ON -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo -D SPM_ENABLE_TCMALLOC=on \
+ -D SPM_ENABLE_NFKC_COMPILE=on -D SPM_ENABLE_SHARED=off \
+ -D SPM_SANITIZE=off -D SPM_DISABLE_LTO=off \
+ -S . -B build -GNinja
+```
+
+Run the following command as before:
+
+```bash
+cmake --build build
+```
+
+Finally, run the following command to build and run the tests.
+
+```
+cmake --build build --target test
+```