From 8494b436359eec2abcaa24c21f36ab8b069eb4fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Bert=20M=C3=BCnnich?= <ber.t@posteo.de>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 12:16:33 +0100
Subject: Document dependencies

Fixes issues #378 and #374.
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 README.md | 20 +++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 49b671b..beaa328 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -32,9 +32,27 @@ Screenshots
 ![Thumb](http://muennich.github.com/sxiv/img/thumb.png "Thumb mode")
 
 
-Installation
+Dependencies
 ------------
 
+sxiv requires the following software to be installed:
+
+  * Imlib2
+  * X11
+  * Xft
+  * freetype2
+  * fontconfig
+  * giflib (optional, disabled with `HAVE_GIFLIB=0`)
+  * libexif (optional, disabled with `HAVE_LIBEXIF=0`)
+
+Please make sure to install the corresponding development packages in case that
+you want to build sxiv on a distribution with separate runtime and development
+packages (e.g. *-dev on Debian).
+
+
+Building
+--------
+
 sxiv is built using the commands:
 
     $ make
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