pkg-config

Provide the details of installed libraries for compiling applications. More information: <https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config/>.

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/pkg-config.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install pkg-config
Ubuntu
apt-get install pkg-config
Arch Arch Linux
pacman -S pkgconf-pkg-config
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install pkg-config
CentOS
yum install pkgconf-pkg-config
Fedora
dnf install pkgconf-pkg-config
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install pkg-config
OS X
brew install pkg-config
Raspbian
apt-get install pkg-config
Dockerfile
dockerfile.run/pkg-config

Provide the details of installed libraries for compiling applications. More information: <https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config/>.

  • Get the list of libraries and their dependencies:
    pkg-config --libs library1 library2 ...
  • Get the list of libraries, their dependencies, and proper cflags for gcc:
    pkg-config --cflags --libs library1 library2 ...
  • Compile your code with libgtk-3, libwebkit2gtk-4.0 and all their dependencies:
    c++ example.cpp $(pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-3.0 webkit2gtk-4.0) -o example

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