From 95eca6c5661b90c5029b8b87fd5baa513f5ad309 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Niklas Haas <git@haasn.dev>
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 10:13:06 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] README: update instructions

Reference the existence of the 3rdparty submodules.
---
 README.md | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7b6def4e..f5c45037 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -245,6 +245,23 @@ Please open an issue if you have a use case for a BSD2-licensed libplacebo.
 
 An ebuild is available as `media-libs/libplacebo` in the gentoo repository.
 
+### Obtaining
+
+When cloning libplacebo, make sure to provide the `--recursive``` flag:
+
+```bash
+$ git clone --recursive https://code.videolan.org/videolan/libplacebo
+```
+
+Alternatively (on an existing clone):
+
+```bash
+$ git submodule update --init
+```
+
+Doing either of these pulls in a handful of bundled 3rdparty dependencies.
+Alternatively, they can be provided via the system.
+
 ### Building from source
 
 libplacebo is built using the [meson build system](http://mesonbuild.com/).
@@ -277,7 +294,9 @@ A full list of optional dependencies each feature requires:
 - **lcms**: `liblcms2`
 - **opengl**: `libepoxy`
 - **shaderc**: `libshaderc`
-- **vulkan**: `libvulkan`, `python3-mako`
+- **vulkan**: `libvulkan`, `python3-mako` (*)
+
+(*) This dependency is bundled automatically when doing a recursive clone.
 
 #### Vulkan support