On Sunday 02 October 2011, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote: > 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.
pkg-config is a freedesktop standard ? Didn't notice. And if it is, it is a bad one (you know, like hardcoding compiler flags in a text file etc.). Alex _______________________________________________ Kde-buildsystem mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-buildsystem
