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@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ A Virtual Boy emulator built around the shrooms-vb core. Written in Rust, using
 
 Install the following dependencies:
  - `cargo` (via [rustup](https://rustup.rs/), the version from your package manager is too old)
+ - a C compiler (any will do, [the build script](https://docs.rs/cc/latest/cc/#compile-time-requirements) will find it automatically)
+ - (on linux) `libasound2-dev` and `libudev-dev`
 
 Run
 ```sh