--- a/inc/Module/Build/Scintilla/GTK.pm
+++ b/inc/Module/Build/Scintilla/GTK.pm
@@ -63,32 +64,6 @@
 	$self->_run_command( \@cmd );
 }
 
-sub stc_prebuild_check {
-	my $self      = shift;
-	my $ld        = Alien::wxWidgets->linker;
-	my $libstring = $self->stc_extra_scintilla_libs;
-	my $outfile   = 'stc_checkdepends.out';
-	my $command   = qq($ld -fPIC -shared $libstring -o $outfile);
-	if ( system($command) ) {
-		unlink($outfile);
-		print qq(Check for gtk2 development libraries failed.\n);
-		print qq(Perhaps you need to install package libgtk2.0-dev or the equivalent for your system.\n);
-		print qq(You can ofcourse uninstall it later after the installation is complete.\n);
-		print qq(The build cannot continue.\n);
-		exit(1);
-	}
-	unlink($outfile);
-	return 1;
-}
-
-sub stc_extra_scintilla_libs {
-	my $self   = shift;
-	my $extras = '-lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lpangoft2-1.0 ';
-	$extras .= '-lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lm -lpango-1.0 -lfreetype -lfontconfig -lgobject-2.0 ';
-	$extras .= '-lgmodule-2.0 -lgthread-2.0 -lglib-2.0';
-	return $extras;
-}
-
 sub stc_link_scintilla_objects {
        my ( $self, $shared_lib, $objects ) = @_;