Re: [Mingw-users] Install pkg-config

[Tor L. <tm...@ik...>]

> The entry states:
> |The difficulty in getting pkg-config installed is due its circular
> |depency on glib.

I think "install" here should be interpreted as meaning "install by
building from source code".

> Finally I wonder why there is no pkg-config already pre-compiled,

There is, linked to from the second page you mentioned,
http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html . Points to
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/dependencies/pkg-config_0.23-3_win32.zip
.

(Of course, the gtk.org or ftp.gnome.org sites are not part of MinGW,
so if you think that MinGW should be a complete "distribution" and
provide through the mingw.org site open source software you want built
for Windows, they are not "good enough".)

Anyway, if you just download the above and try to run the
pkg-config.exe program, you will notice that it requires
libglib-2.0-0.dll, which is provided in a glib package. Any reasonably
recent 2.x version would work, for instance that in
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/glib/2.24/glib_2.24.0-2_win32.zip
.

pkg-config has no other 3rd-party dependencies.

--tml