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pkg-config is computer software that provides a unified interface for querying installed libraries for the purpose of compiling software from its source code.

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What is the proper way to use `pkg-config` from `cmake`?

Looking around on the net I have seen a lot of code like this: include(FindPkgConfig) pkg_search_module(SDL2 REQUIRED sdl2) target_include_directories(app SYSTEM PUBLIC ${SDL2_INCLUDE_DIRS}) target_link_libraries(app ${SDL2_LIBRARIES}) However…
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How to install pkg config in windows?

I am trying to do it, but all I can get is some source code that I don't know how to do deal with I downloaded from http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/releases/.
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Package opencv was not found in the pkg-config search path

I have installed OpenCV using the instructions in https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenCV $ sudo su $ sudo apt-get install build-essential $ sudo apt-get install libavformat-dev $ sudo apt-get install ffmpeg $ sudo apt-get install libcv2.3…
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pygobject-2.28.6 won't configure: No package 'gobject-introspection-1.0' found, how do I resolve?

I'm trying to get pygobject-2.28.6 to compile in cygwin (version in repository is 2.28.4 which has some issues). Here is the tail of ./configure: checking for GLIB - version >= 2.24.0... yes (version 2.34.3) checking for ffi... checking for FFI...…
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No package 'lua' found but i have it installed

I'm trying to install Lsyncd on Ubuntu 10.4 LTS but i get some error : > checking for LUA... no checking for > LUA... no checking for LUA... > configure: error: Package requirements > (lua >= 5.1.3) were not met: > > No package 'lua' found > >…
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PKG_CHECK_MODULES considered harmful?

Various developers discourage the usage of the PKG_CHECK_MODULES (for example, in this answer) but there is no clear, comprehensive explanation of their reasons as far as I've looked for. So, I ask: Why would PKG_CHECK_MODULES be harmful? What are…
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Linux glib needs pkg-config and pkg-config needs glib?

I try to install udev. And udev gives me an error during the ./configure --exists: command not found configure: error: pkg-config and "glib-2.0 >= 2.16" not found, please set GLIB_CFLAGS and GLIB_LIBS to the correct values or pass…
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what is the significance of pkg-config in gcc?

While building a dbus-example, I found that we need to add a pkg-config in gcc. For example: gcc `pkg-config --cflags --libs dbus-1` -o What is the significance of pkg-config --cflags --libs dbus-1? what is pkg-config…
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pkg-config error during Rust cross-compilation

I am getting this error when I try to cross-compile some Rust; does anyone know what I should be doing? This happens when I run cargo build --target aarch64, I get: Compiling glib-sys v0.10.1 error: failed to run custom build command for `glib-sys…
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set PKG_CONFIG_PATH in cmake

I have built opencv locally and installed it to a local directory (not the system default ). opencv.pc is present under a folder pkgconfig in this local folder. How can I find this opencv.pc from cmake, because I want to link and include opencv…
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R devtools fails as "Package libxml-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path"

I am trying to install devtools in R version 3.2.1, however when I do the following error is thrown: Package libxml-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing libxml-2.0.pc to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH…
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How do I fix 'brew install pkg-config'?

Warning: Could not link pkg-config. Unlinking... Error: The `brew link` step did not complete successfully The formula built, but is not symlinked into /usr/local You can try again using `brew link pkg-config`‏‏‏‏‏‏
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pkg-config and OSX 10.8, proper PKG_CONFIG_PATH? Missing .pc files?

I installed pkg-config with homebrew in OSX. I'm not sure what I should set my PKG_CONFIG_PATH to? Should it be a combination of /usr/include and /usr/local/include? Even if I use one or the other, I get an error about there not being any .pc…
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How to use C++ Boost library with pkg-config?

I successfully compiled and installed the latest version of the Boost library onto my linux machine. Now, I would like to be able to use pkg-config to ease the process of providing linking paremeters with GCC. Since I am too lazy for hand-coding my…
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How to specify dependency on external C library in .cabal?

I maintain a library with FFI bindings on Hackage. So my Haskell library depends on the corresponding C library and its header files. Now I specify the external dependency in the .cabal file like this: PkgConfig-Depends: libfoo >= 1.2 And it…
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