On Aug 7, 2006, at 11:35 AM, Tor Lillqvist wrote: > Bill Cunningham writes: >> pkg-config doesn't help me much. I'm not quite sure how to use it. I >> know there is the PKG_CONFIG variable. Do you set that in >> bash_profile ? I >> must confess I can't figure out how to use the package. You don't really use pkg-config directly; the configure scripts for what you're installing use it. You merely provide some external direction for it. Basic idea: packages provided pkg-config files (for example, gtk +-2.0.pc). These files tell pkg-config how to tell the build system for another package how to build and link against the first package. Now, to find those files, pkg-config must know where they are. They're installed to $PREFIX/pkgconfig by packages. So, if glib is installed in /opt/gtk2, and you want to link GTK against that glib, you'd run GTK's configure script like so: $ PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/opt/gtk2/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH" ./ configure <configure args as normal> thereby setting the environment variable on the command line. Optionally, you can set it in your .bashrc, .bash_profile, or whatever the initialization script for your shell is. - Michael P.S. Hit Reply to All rather than Reply to keep the discussion on the list and avoid the problem Tor's brought to your attention. _______________________________________________ gtkmm-list mailing list gtkmm-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
