diff --git a/examples/ml/README b/examples/ml/README
index 3e1eb0d1c..7d33df743 100644
--- a/examples/ml/README
+++ b/examples/ml/README
@@ -12,3 +12,13 @@ or
 LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ./ml_example.byte
 for the byte-code version.
 
+If Z3 was installed into the ocamlfind package repository (see src/api/ml/README),
+then we can compile this example as follows:
+
+ocamlfind ocamlc -o ml_example.byte -custom -package Z3 -linkpkg
+ocamlfind ocamlopt -o ml_example -package Z3 -linkpkg
+
+Note that the resulting binaries depend on the shared z3 library, which needs to be 
+in the PATH (Windows), LD_LIBRARY_PATH (Linux) or DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH (OSX). If Z3 was 
+installed into ocamlfind, the path that should be added is 
+`ocamlfind printconf destdir`/Z3