Re: [Mingw-users] Install pkg-config

[Vincent T. <vt...@un...>]

On Tue, 15 Jun 2010, Stefano Sabatini wrote:

> 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.

you also usually need pkg.m4, which is in the dev package of pkg-config 
(gtk+ download page)

Vincent Torri

>
> 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.
>
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