Mail Archives: djgpp/2022/10/04/15:45:37
This is a port of pkg-config 0.23 to MSDOS/DJGPP.
The pkg-config program is used to retrieve information about installed
libraries in the system. It is typically used to compile and to link
against one or more libraries.
DJGPP specific changes.
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- The port honours the PATH_SEPARATOR environment variable to select
the path separator to be used. If no one is given it defaults to
semi-colon as seprator.
- This pkg-config version is the last one that can be compiled with
disabled multi-threading support. All later GLib library versions
require MT support that can only be provided by one of the two
DJGPP ports either pth207b or fpth314b. Neither of them performe
well. Although pth207b has the more complete pthread implementation
it requires the installation of the Watt-32 library. Also it may be
necessary to recompile the ibrary to get the required
functionalities available. Due to the amount of work to get the
GLib library working on DOS I have decided that the effort is not
worth the result. DOS is and will always be a single user single
task OS where all multi-threading efforts are superflous.
- The port has been configured to be used as a tool in the DJGPP
enviroment, thus all internal path assumptions are done based
on the value of the DJDIR environment variable. If it is not
set, the tool will not work properly. If you want to use the
program as a stand alone tool then you will have to set all its
controling environment variables to the appropriate values.
- The port has been configured and compiled on WinXP SP3, Win98SE and
MSDOS 6.22 with DOSLFN v0.41f. There is no guarantee that this may
be possible with any other DOS-like OS. Due to the use of long file
names it will not be possible to configure and compile without LFN
support. The port has been compiled using gcc346 and bnu2351b.
As usual, all djgpp specific files (diffs, README files, etc.) are
stored in the "djgpp" directory. The sources have been configured to
be build in the "0build" directory. If for some reason it does not
work for you, delete its contents and configure from scratch again.
Please read the docs to become familiar with this product.
Here is an extract of the CHANGES file showing the user visible
changes from the last port (pkg-config 0.0.0) to this one:
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It is the first port. Look at the NEWS file.
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The port consists of the usual two packages that have been produced
using djdev206 (CVS repository code) and can be downloaded from
ftp.delorie.com and mirrors as (time stamp 2022-10-03):
pkg-config 0.23 headers, library and html format documentation:
http://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2tk/pkc023b.zip
pkg-config 0.23 source:
http://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2tk/pkc023s.zip
Send pkg-config specific bug reports to
<http://bugzilla.freedesktop.org/>.
Send suggestions and bug reports concerning the DJGPP port
to comp.os.msdos.djgpp or <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>.
Enjoy.
Guerrero, Juan Manuel <juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de>
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