project('external dependency', 'c') # Zlib is probably on all dev machines. dep = dependency('zlib', version : '>=1.2') exe = executable('zlibprog', 'prog-checkver.c', dependencies : dep, c_args : '-DFOUND_ZLIB="' + dep.version() + '"') assert(dep.version().version_compare('>=1.2'), 'Pkg-config version numbers exposed incorrectly.') # Check that the version exposed by zlib internally is the same as the one we # retrieve from the pkg-config file. This assumes that the packager didn't mess # up, but we can be reasonably sure of that. test('zlibtest', exe) zprefix = dep.get_pkgconfig_variable('prefix') # Always set but we can't be sure what the value is. # pkg-config returns empty string for not defined variables assert(dep.get_pkgconfig_variable('nonexisting') == '', 'Value of unknown variable is not empty.') # Test that dependencies of dependencies work. dep2 = declare_dependency(dependencies : dep) exe2 = executable('zlibprog2', 'prog.c', dependencies : dep2) test('zlibtest2', exe2) # Try to find a nonexistant library to ensure requires:false works. dep = dependency('nvakuhrabnsdfasdf', required : false)