From 43592b1ca79d7e640c8d36907e26b1354fcddbdf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: tildearrow <me@tildearrow.org>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2025 01:22:09 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] once more with troubleshooting

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 README.md | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ff76310f1..7fbfd5d05 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -462,6 +462,8 @@ if you are on Windows, using MSYS2, then you most likely disregarded the guide a
 
 get out of the UCRT64 environment and start the MINGW64 one.
 
+however, if you already are in the MINGW64 environment, then make sure you installed `mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake` instead of `cmake`. restart the environment after doing so.
+
 otherwise, install the ALSA development libraries (libasound-dev or something like that).
 
 also make sure you've installed the rest of dependencies so you don't hit one of the errors below...