diff --git a/regen-mncc-py.sh b/regen-mncc-py.sh
index 30bdd34..f1c85db 100755
--- a/regen-mncc-py.sh
+++ b/regen-mncc-py.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,16 @@
 #/bin/sh
-echo on Debian, codegen/cparser.py must call gccxml.real instead of gccxml!
+echo This script requires that python-ctypeslib is installed on the system
+echo Unfortunately, this package is long unmaintained and only available on Debian8
+echo
+
+if [ ! -x `which h2xml` ]; then
+	echo No h2xml executable found - python-ctypeslib not installed?
+fi
+
+if [ ! -x `which xml2py` ]; then
+	echo No xml2py executable found - python-ctypeslib not installed?
+fi
+
 cp ./mncc.h /tmp/mncc.h
-h2xml.py ./mncc.h -c -o mncc.xml
-xml2py.py mncc.xml -k dest -v -o mncc.py
+h2xml ./mncc.h -c -o mncc.xml
+xml2py mncc.xml -k dest -v -o mncc.py