Re: pkg-config

On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 09:00:33AM +0100, [email protected] wrote:
> > This is a patch you have to apply to the linux pkg-config, right ?
> > 
> > How do you install the gtk+ libraries, you simply unzip them somewhere
> > and have pkg-config point to that ?
> 
> You extract the libs all to a common directory.  pkg-config would be under
> that common directory in bin.

Mmm, does this mean that you cannot reuse the installed pkg-config of
your linux distribution ? I suppose you can configure pkg-config to look
at an alternate directory for the .pc files, and it would provide the
right result, provided a few patches or something such.

> If you put this directory in your path i.e. <common dir>/bin and <common
> dir>/lib you can use the libs and binaries anywhere.
> 
> > 
> > BTW, would it be easier to cross compile the libraries than it is to
> > build them under windows ?
> 
> A colleague of mine did some cross compiling and it didnt take him very long
> and it wasn't too difficult.  Personally I wouldn't cross compile.

Well, if you can cross compile the libraries, you can produce a cross
compil debian package to go with the already existing mingw32 packages.
If that did work, cross compiling gtk apps would be a breeze, and you
wouldn't need to give yourself over to the dark side. This would be of
interrest to the peoples who are mainly linux developper but want to
have a windows version of their program available also.

Friendly,

Sven Luther