diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ Here is an example workflow:
 
 ```
 rm -rf build
-CC=clang meson build -Dfuzz=true -Db_sanitize=address,undefined -Db_lundef=false
+CC=clang meson setup build -Dfuzz=true -Db_sanitize=address,undefined -Db_lundef=false
 ninja -C build/
 mkdir build/fuzz_corpus
 cp examples/config build/fuzz_corpus/