Can create pkg-config files.

backends.py

@@ -334,6 +334,29 @@ class Backend():
             confdata = cf.get_configuration_data()
             do_conf_file(infile, outfile, confdata)
 
+    def generate_pkgconfig_files(self):
+        for p in self.build.pkgconfig_gens:
+            outdir = self.environment.scratch_dir
+            fname = os.path.join(outdir, p.filebase + '.pc')
+            ofile = open(fname, 'w')
+            ofile.write('prefix=%s\n' % self.environment.get_coredata().prefix)
+            ofile.write('libdir=${prefix}/%s\n' % self.environment.get_coredata().libdir)
+            ofile.write('includedir=${prefix}/%s\n\n' % self.environment.get_coredata().includedir)
+            ofile.write('Name: %s\n' % p.name)
+            if len(p.description) > 0:
+                ofile.write('Description: %s\n' % p.description)
+            if len(p.version) > 0:
+                ofile.write('Version: %s\n' % p.version)
+            ofile.write('Libs: -L${libdir} ')
+            for l in p.libraries:
+                ofile.write('-l%s ' % l.name)
+            ofile.write('\n')
+            ofile.write('CFlags: ')
+            for h in p.headerdirs.keys():
+                ofile.write(os.path.join('-I${includedir}', h))
+                ofile.write(' ')
+            ofile.write('\n')
+
 class NinjaBuildElement():
     def __init__(self, outfilenames, rule, infilenames):
         if isinstance(outfilenames, str):
@@ -408,6 +431,7 @@ class NinjaBackend(Backend):
         tempfilename = outfilename + '~'
         outfile = open(tempfilename, 'w')
         self.generate_configure_files()
+        self.generate_pkgconfig_files()
         outfile.write('# This is the build file for project "%s"\n' % self.build.get_project())
         outfile.write('# It is autogenerated by the Meson build system.\n')
         outfile.write('# Do not edit by hand.\n\n')

interpreter.py

@@ -756,9 +756,9 @@ class Interpreter():
         name = kwargs.get('name', None)
         if not isinstance(name, str):
             raise InterpreterException('Name not specified.')
-        filebase = kwargs.get('filebase', None)
+        filebase = kwargs.get('filebase', name)
         if not isinstance(filebase, str):
-            raise InterpreterException('Filebase not specified.')
+            raise InterpreterException('Filebase must be a string.')
         description = kwargs.get('description', None)
         if not isinstance(description, str):
             raise InterpreterException('Description is not a string.')

test cases/common/51 pkgconfig-gen/meson.build

@@ -5,4 +5,4 @@ libver = '1.0'
 h = headers('simple.h')
 
 pkgconfig_gen(libraries : lib, headers : h, version : libver,
-name : 'libsimple', filebase : 'simple', description : 'This is a simple library.')
+name : 'libsimple', filebase : 'simple', description : 'A simple demo library.')