From b8d15cc1fa5aeeceb76c55511db01a7dfe220d30 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Roland Conybeare <rconybeare@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2023 15:02:57 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] mention dependencies in README

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 README.md | 7 +++++++
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 # ordinal tree library
 
+## Getting Started
+
+### build + install dependencies
+
+- see [github/Rconybea/randomgen](https://github.com/Rconybea/randomgen) -- random number generators e.g. xoshiro256ss
+- see [github/Rconybea/refcnt](https://github.com/Rconybea/refcnt) -- intrusive reference-counting
+
 ### build + install
 ```
 $ cd xo-ordinaltree