From 3aa5f17e5913216a4d95761e967300c31abf20ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joshua Suskalo <joshua@iris.tv>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2022 13:47:45 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Expand the examples of using `-J` and `:jvm-opts` in readme

---
 README.md | 19 +++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9a94b2d..d3ffae8 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -35,8 +35,23 @@ following JVM arguments to your application.
 --add-modules=jdk.incubator.foreign --enable-native-access=ALL-UNNAMED
 ```
 
-JVM arguments can be added to your project with -J in the Clojure CLI arguments,
-or in the `:jvm-opts` key of an alias in your `deps.edn` file.
+You can specify JVM arguments in a particular invocation of the Clojure CLI with
+the -J flag like so:
+
+``` sh
+clj -J--add-modules=jdk.incubator.foreign -J--enable-native-access=ALL-UNNAMED
+```
+
+You can also specify them in an alias in your `deps.edn` file under the
+`:jvm-opts` key (see the next example) and then invoking the CLI with that alias
+using `-M`, `-A`, or `-X`.
+
+``` clojure
+{:aliases {:dev {:jvm-opts ["--add-modules=jdk.incubator.foreign" "--enable-native-access=ALL-UNNAMED"]}}}
+```
+
+Other build tools should provide similar functionality if you check their
+documentation.
 
 Coffi also includes support for the linter clj-kondo. If you use clj-kondo and
 this library's macros are not linting correctly, you may need to install the