diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 65cdaff..ced9978 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ What you need to build and install.
 git
 cmake (>= 3.10)
 c++ 17 compatible compiler (gcc >= 8, Ubuntu: g++-8)
-boost development headers (for restbed) (Ubuntu: libboost-dev)
+boost development headers (for restbed) (Ubuntu: libboost-dev,
+probably also libboost-system-dev and libboost-thread-dev; if not, libboost-all-dev)
 libcurl (Ubuntu: libcurl4-openssl-dev)
 openssl (Ubuntu: libssl-dev)
 gmp (Ubuntu: libgmp-dev)
@@ -44,7 +45,7 @@ more submodules than necessary.
 
 ### Build
 
-#### OpenSSL (only on Arch)
+#### Static OpenSSL (only on Arch, or later Debian/Ubuntu versions)
 
 As mentioned above, on Arch you may need to manually compile (static) openssl
 libs:
@@ -68,6 +69,44 @@ make -j$(nproc) sel
 Omit or customize `-j` if you don't want to build in parallel with the maximum
 amount of threads available on your system.
 
+### Alternative Build intructionis (WIP)
+
+#### Other steps (WIP)
+
+##### MIRACL
+
+```
+cd extern/ABY/extern/ENCRYPTO_utils/extern/MIRACL
+cmake .
+make
+```
+
+##### Force-Updating all submodules
+```
+git submodule update --init --force
+```
+
+```
+% more scripts/init_submodules.sh
+#!/bin/sh
+
+echo Switching to repo toplevel directory
+set -x -e
+cd $(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)
+
+git submodule update --init
+
+cd extern/restbed
+git submodule update --init
+
+cd ../ABY
+git submodule update --init # ENCRYPTO_utils and OTExtension
+cd extern/ENCRYPTO_utils
+git submodule update --init # MIRACL
+
+```
+
+
 ### Running
 
 The default server configuration logs to `../log/`, so create that directory in the
@@ -195,7 +234,7 @@ Please read [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) for details on our code of conduc
 
 ## Versioning
 
-We use [SemVer](http://semver.org/) for versioning. For the versions available, see the [tags on this repository](https://git.compbiol.bio.tu-darmstadt.de/kussel/secure_epilink/tags). 
+We use [SemVer](http://semver.org/) for versioning. For the versions available, see the [tags on this repository](https://git.compbiol.bio.tu-darmstadt.de/kussel/secure_epilink/tags).
 
 ## Authors
 
@@ -211,4 +250,3 @@ This project is licensed under the AGPL License - see the [LICENSE](LICENSE) fil
 
 * Thanks to [Lennart Braun](https://github.com/lenerd/ABY-build) for a sane ABY build process
 * This work has been supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and by the Hessian State Ministry for Higher Education, Research and the Arts (HMWK) within the [HiGHmed Consortium](http://www.highmed.org) and [CRISP](http://www.crisp-da.de).
-
diff --git a/extern/CMakeLists.txt b/extern/CMakeLists.txt
index 1aa6bd3..7d2c1bc 100644
--- a/extern/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/extern/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ execute_process(COMMAND
   "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake/patch-valijson.sh"
   "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/extern/valijson")
 
+# First add all subdirectories
 add_subdirectory(ABY)
 add_subdirectory(fmt)
 add_subdirectory(cxxopts)
@@ -22,6 +23,7 @@ add_subdirectory(restbed EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL)
 add_subdirectory(curlpp EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL)
 add_subdirectory(spdlog EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL)
 
+# Then set compile options
 target_compile_options(aby PRIVATE "-w")
 target_compile_options(encrypto_utils PRIVATE "-w")
 target_compile_options(otextension PRIVATE "-w")
diff --git a/scripts/init_submodules.sh b/scripts/init_submodules.sh
index 474bbea..4cb3b75 100755
--- a/scripts/init_submodules.sh
+++ b/scripts/init_submodules.sh
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ cd $(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)
 git submodule update --init
 
 cd extern/restbed
-git submodule update --init dependency/asio dependency/catch # ignore openssl
+git submodule update --init
 
 cd ../ABY
 git submodule update --init # ENCRYPTO_utils and OTExtension