[Mingw-users] Install pkg-config

[Stefano S. <ste...@po...>]

Hi all,

I need to install pkg-config, and I'm reading:
http://www.mingw.org/wiki/FAQ - How do I get pkg-config installed? 

The entry states:
|The difficulty in getting pkg-config installed is due its circular
|depency on glib. To install pkg-config, you should first install the
|GTK-runtime, the installer is found at
|http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=121075. The
|pkg-config binary can be obtained from
|http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html. Place pkg-config.exe in your
|MinGW bin directory.

The first link:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=121075

points to the Gimp+GTK download page (no GTK runtime installer
alone).

Question: do I really need to install Gimp in order to get pkg-config
installed?

The page pointed by the second link:
http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html

lists both Glib/GTK packages and the pkg-config package, so it is
somehow confusing (which version of pkg-config, GTK, GLib have to be
installed?).

Finally I wonder why there is no pkg-config already pre-compiled, I
suppose that having that depending on Gimp/GTK/GTK+/GLib/GodKnowsWhat
etc. doesn't help it.

Regards.