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@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ The project setup requires wget or curl, gzip, and tar.
 
 Additional requirements for building dependencies:
 
-- sockpp: CMake
+- sockpp: a C compiler, CMake
 
 **For people using other shells than bash:** You need to at least have bash
 installed to use the scripts, but using it as your shell while working on