diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index c9a0c834e..6a5fd9aae 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -739,6 +739,11 @@ install(FILES
   DESTINATION "${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR}/cmake/Notcurses++"
   )
 
+install(FILES
+  ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/notcurses-core.pc
+  DESTINATION ${PKGCONFIG_DIR}
+)
+
 install(FILES
   ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/notcurses.pc
   DESTINATION ${PKGCONFIG_DIR}
diff --git a/tools/notcurses-core.pc.in b/tools/notcurses-core.pc.in
index bbebe2a8b..33baa23b8 100644
--- a/tools/notcurses-core.pc.in
+++ b/tools/notcurses-core.pc.in
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Description: TUI library for modern terminal emulators
 Version: @PROJECT_VERSION@
 
 Requires:
-Requires.private: pthread tinfo unistring
+Requires.private: tinfo
 Libs: -L${libdir} -lnotcurses-core
-Libs.private: -lm -lstdc++
+Libs.private: -lunistring -lstdc++ -lm
 Cflags: -I${includedir}
diff --git a/tools/notcurses.pc.in b/tools/notcurses.pc.in
index 3839ffa1b..2545244c1 100644
--- a/tools/notcurses.pc.in
+++ b/tools/notcurses.pc.in
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Description: TUI library for modern terminal emulators
 Version: @PROJECT_VERSION@
 
 Requires:
-Requires.private: pthread tinfo unistring
+Requires.private: notcurses-core
 Libs: -L${libdir} -lnotcurses
-Libs.private: -lm -lstdc++ -lnotcurses-core
+Libs.private:
 Cflags: -I${includedir}