Re: [Mingw-users] Install pkg-config

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

On date Tuesday 2010-06-15 16:13:51 +0300, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
> > 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".)

As far as I understood it MinGW/MSYS are here to provide a way for
running configure && make for a source package in Windows, since
pkg-config is required by many configure scripts, having a glib and
pkg-config in MSYS would be nice.

That why I'd just have to add them to my setup-mingw-files.txt file
and I had them automatically installed with no further steps required.
 
> 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.

Well I can confirm that I just installed glib 2.24.0 and pkg-config
0.23-3 from the page:
http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html

and pkg-config seems to work fine.

Thanks, regards.