diff --git a/mingw-w64-dcmtk/PKGBUILD b/mingw-w64-dcmtk/PKGBUILD
index 7324863468..2c35f6b078 100644
--- a/mingw-w64-dcmtk/PKGBUILD
+++ b/mingw-w64-dcmtk/PKGBUILD
@@ -25,8 +25,7 @@ makedepends=("${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-cc"
              "${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-cmake"
              "${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-ninja"
              "${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-icu"
-             "${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-libiconv"
-             "${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-autotools")
+             "${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-libiconv")
 optdepends=("${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-icu"
             "${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-libiconv")
 source=("https://dicom.offis.de/download/dcmtk/dcmtk${pkgver//./}/${_realname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz"
@@ -57,19 +56,9 @@ prepare() {
     msg2 "Reversing 003-fix-non-MINGW64.patch"
     patch -Nbp1 --reverse -i "${srcdir}/003-fix-non-MINGW64.patch"
   fi
-
-  cd config
-  ./rootconf
 }
 
 build() {
-  # this is just to get arith.h
-  cd "${srcdir}"/${_realname}-${pkgver}
-
-  ./configure --ignore-deprecation
-  make config-tests-all
-
-  # continue the build using cmake
   mkdir -p "${srcdir}"/build-${MSYSTEM} && cd "${srcdir}"/build-${MSYSTEM}
 
   declare -a extra_config