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From: Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT latnet DOT lv>
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: [Announce] Source and binary packages of pkgconfig-0.15
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 14:21:52 +0200
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Source and binary archives of pkgconfig-0.15 (pkgc015b.zip and pkg015s.zip) 
are now available from DJGPP distribution in directory v2gnu/alphas. It's not 
much tested, so use at Your own risk.

Here is pkg-config man page contents:

Here is  (I think it's more clear rather than README from source archive)

NAME
       pkg-config - Return metainformation about installed libraries

SYNOPSIS
       pkg-config   [--modversion]   [--help]  [--print-errors]  [--silence-
       errors]   [--cflags]   [--libs]    [--libs-only-L]    [--libs-only-l]
       [--cflags-only-I]  [--variable=VARIABLENAME] [--define-variable=VARI-
       ABLENAME=VARIABLEVALUE]  [--uninstalled]  [--exists]  [--atleast-ver-
       sion=VERSION]    [--exact-version=VERSION]    [--max-version=VERSION]
       [LIBRARIES...]

DESCRIPTION
       The  pkg-config  program  is  used  to  retrieve  information   about
       installed  libraries  in the system.  It is typically used to compile
       and link against one or more libraries.  Here is a typical usage sce-
       nario in a Makefile:

       program: program.c
            cc program.c `pkg-config --cflags --libs gnomeui`

       pkg-config retrieves information about packages from special metadata
       files. These files are named after the package,  with  the  extension
       .pc. By default, pkg-config looks in the directory prefix/lib/pkgcon-
       fig for these files; it will also look  in  the  colon-separated  (on
       Windows,  semicolon-separated)  list  of directories specified by the
       PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable.

       The package name specified on the pkg-config command line is  defined
       to  be  the  name of the metadata file, minus the .pc extension. If a
       library can install multiple versions simultaneously,  it  must  give
       each  version its own name (for example, GTK 1.2 might have the pack-
       age name "gtk+" while GTK 2.0 has "gtk+-2.0").


pkg-config is used for GNOME, but several libraries which use it can be rather 
easily built for DJGPP. Some examples:

glib-2.2.X (I have sometimes tested glib-2.2.1, currently latest is glib-2.2.3 
and glib-2.3.0)

libsigc++-1.2.5 (also current unstable version, eg. libsigc++1.9.12): it build 
and works Ok under Win9X, but requires LFN support.

Andris