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Building the C program (`cmark`) and shared library (`libcmark`)
-requires [cmake] and [re2c], which is used to generate `scanners.c` from
-`scanners.re`. (Note that [re2c] is only a build dependency for
-developers, since `scanners.c` can be provided in a released source
-tarball.)
+requires [cmake]. If you modify `scanners.re`, then you will also
+need [re2c], which is used to generate `scanners.c` from
+`scanners.re`. We have included a pre-generated `scanners.c` in
+the repository to reduce build dependencies.
If you have GNU make, you can simply `make`, `make test`, and `make
install`. This calls [cmake] to create a `Makefile` in the `build`