--- Makefile.PL
+++ Makefile.PL
@@ -17,17 +17,16 @@ use warnings;
 
 require 5.008001;
 
-use Alien::Base::Wrapper qw( Alien::Libxml2 );
 use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;
+use ExtUtils::PkgConfig;
 use Config;
 
 my $SKIP_SAX_INSTALL = $ENV{SKIP_SAX_INSTALL};
 
 my %ConfigReqs = (
-  "Alien::Libxml2" => '0.14',
-  "Alien::Base::Wrapper" => 0,
   "Config" => 0,
   "ExtUtils::MakeMaker" => 0,
+  "ExtUtils::PkgConfig" => 0,
 );
 my %DevReqs = (
   'Test::CPAN::Changes' => 0,
@@ -68,15 +67,12 @@ my %prereqs = (
   "warnings" => 0,
 );
 
-my %xsbuild_concat = (
+my %xsbuild = (
   DEFINE  => '-DHAVE_UTF8',
   OBJECT  => '$(O_FILES)',
+  CCFLAGS => ExtUtils::PkgConfig->cflags_only_I('libxml-2.0') . " $Config{ccflags}",
+  LIBS    => [ ExtUtils::PkgConfig->libs_only_l('libxml-2.0') ],
 );
-my %xsbuild = Alien::Base::Wrapper->mm_args;  # Might contain a definition of DEFINE, must thus concatenate.
-while (my ($k, $v) = each %xsbuild_concat) {
-  my $base_val = $xsbuild{$k};
-  $xsbuild{$k} = (defined($base_val) ? ($base_val . ' ' . $v) : $v);
-}
 
 my %WriteMakefileArgs = (
   "NAME" => "XML::LibXML",
--- META.json
+++ META.json
@@ -45,10 +45,9 @@
       },
       "configure" : {
          "requires" : {
-            "Alien::Base::Wrapper" : "0",
-            "Alien::Libxml2" : "0.14",
             "Config" : "0",
-            "ExtUtils::MakeMaker" : "0"
+            "ExtUtils::MakeMaker" : "0",
+            "ExtUtils::PkgConfig" : "0"
          }
       },
       "runtime" : {
--- META.yml
+++ META.yml
@@ -14,10 +14,9 @@ build_requires:
   locale: '0'
   utf8: '0'
 configure_requires:
-  Alien::Base::Wrapper: '0'
-  Alien::Libxml2: '0.14'
   Config: '0'
   ExtUtils::MakeMaker: '0'
+  ExtUtils::PkgConfig: '0'
 dynamic_config: 0
 generated_by: 'ExtUtils::MakeMaker version 7.70, CPAN::Meta::Converter version 2.150010'
 keywords: