On Saturday 01 October 2011, Alexander Neundorf wrote: > On Wednesday 21 September 2011, Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote: > > Michael Jansen <[email protected]> writes: > > > Not sure here. After a (short) talk to some kde windows guys i remember > > > he said there is pkgconfig for windows but it is considered completly > > > broken. I think thats why most modules do that magic. Do ignore it on > > > windows even if there. > > > > I've often times heard non-KDE people say pkgconfig used to be broken > > but should work fine nowadays, so I'm a bit confused here. It'd be nice > > if the kde-windows guys could provide more details on what's the current > > state of pkgconfig for them. > > Yes. > Also, whenever I said somewhere that our cmake files must be able to find > stuff also without pkgconfig, people replied that nowadays it works just fine > under Windows. > > So, Windows developers: what's the current state of pkg-config under Windows ? > Does it work ?
Yes > Do you use it ? Yes. For Qt, KDE and other project types as well. > Does it work with mingw ? > Does it work with MSVC ? Yes, yes. An example of a CMake build system using extensively pkg-config in both Windows (MinGW and MSVC) and Linux is FluidSynth: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/fluidsynth/wiki/BuildingWithCMake An argument to support using pkg-config for projects that already provide a .pc file can be the recent problems with PulseAudio 1.0 and the broken findpulseaudio.cmake Another argument is that looks like KDE would be playing some sort of boycott against a freedesktop.org standard. Regards, Pedro _______________________________________________ Kde-buildsystem mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-buildsystem
