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@@ -48,3 +48,18 @@ To install without the CUDA plugins,
 1. Copy the migration file for python/cuda from [conda-forge/openmm-feedstock](https://github.com/conda-forge/openmm-feedstock)
    For eg: [python 3.12 migration](https://github.com/conda-forge/openmm-feedstock/blob/ce7e3376d2dfb1033460093daf8e324f8169d486/.ci_support/migrations/python312.yaml)
 2. Run `./rerender.sh`.
+
+### Building downstream libraries as wheels
+
+To get downstream pacakges as wheels, we need to do the following,
+
+1. Get a `conda-forge` feedstock up and running.
+2. Copy the feedstock into a new repo for wheel changes
+3. Copy `recipe/build_openmm*`, `conda-forge.yml`, `recipe/conda_build_config.yaml`, `rerender.sh`, `download_wheels.sh`  from this repo.
+4. Copy the dependencies in `recipe/meta.yaml`'s `build` indicated by `# START WHEEL CHANGES`.
+5. Make sure `host` in `recipe/meta.yaml` has no C++ shared dependencies on Linux.
+   To be compatible with `manylinux` spec, we need to build C++ shared libraries
+   in `recipe/build_openmm.sh`.
+6. If there are CUDA specific plugins, then we need to provide a separate python wheel like
+   `openmm-cuda`. See `recipe/0001-wheels.patch` for how to do that.
+7. Edit `recipe/build_openmm.sh` to update the lists of headers, libraries to include in each wheel.