diff --git a/docs/compile.dox b/docs/compile.dox
index 8d801735..d1a0dd52 100644
--- a/docs/compile.dox
+++ b/docs/compile.dox
@@ -166,9 +166,17 @@ available on all supported platforms.  Some of these are de facto standards
 among projects using CMake and so have no `GLFW_` prefix.
 
 If you are using the GUI version of CMake, these are listed and can be changed
-from there.  If you are using the command-line version, use the `ccmake` tool.
-Some package systems like Ubuntu and other distributions based on Debian
-GNU/Linux have this tool in a separate `cmake-curses-gui` package.
+from there.  If you are using the command-line versionof CMake you can use the
+`ccmake` ncurses GUI to set options.  Some package systems like Ubuntu and other
+distributions based on Debian GNU/Linux have this tool in a separate
+`cmake-curses-gui` package.
+
+Finally, if you don't want to use any GUI, you can set options from the `cmake`
+command-line with the `-D` flag.
+
+@code{.sh}
+cmake -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON .
+@endcode
 
 
 @subsubsection compile_options_shared Shared CMake options