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@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ Cave Story Engine 2 is based off of the *original freeware release* by Studio Pi
 
 * SDL2
 * FreeType
-* pkg-config
 * FLTK
 
 ## Building
@@ -45,6 +44,8 @@ Once built, the executables can be found in `build_en` or `build_jp`, depending
 
 ### Makefile (deprecated)
 
+*Note: this requires pkg-config*
+
 Run 'make' in the base directory, preferably with some of the following settings:
 
 * `RELEASE=1` - Compile a release build (optimised, stripped, etc.)