From 4be2314856818ca898bbae7493f5b4d493af008f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Maurice <mauriceboe@icloud.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2026 11:09:38 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] docs(wiki): name the toolchain npm asks for on install since
 better-sqlite3 13

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 wiki/Development-environment.md | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/wiki/Development-environment.md b/wiki/Development-environment.md
index 9b06e7c17..b20fdb095 100644
--- a/wiki/Development-environment.md
+++ b/wiki/Development-environment.md
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 - Node.js 22+
 - npm
 - Git
+- Python 3 and a C++ toolchain (`build-essential` on Debian/Ubuntu, the Xcode Command Line Tools on macOS, the Visual Studio Build Tools on Windows). better-sqlite3 ships prebuilt binaries, but a lockfile-driven `npm install` still runs node-gyp against them and stops without these (npm/cli#9837).
 - A GitHub account
 
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