From 332cb0896b639d63ed8bfe5d6bc53fad372c3696 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Simon Laux <mobile.info@simonlaux.de>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2022 17:27:20 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] add note about perl requirement to readme closes #3106

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

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ecbdb1d95..16bd19a65 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ To download and install the official compiler for the Rust programming language,
 $ curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh
 ```
 
+> On Windows, you may need to also install **Perl** to be able to compile deltachat-core.
+
 ## Using the CLI client
 
 Compile and run Delta Chat Core command line utility, using `cargo`: