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Pkgconfig module

This module is a simple generator for pkg-config files.

Usage

To use this module, just do: pkg = import('pkgconfig'). The following function will then be available as pkg.generate(). You can, of course, replace the name pkg with anything else.

pkg.generate()

The generated file's properties are specified with the following keyword arguments.

• description a string describing the library
• extra_cflags a list of extra compiler flags to be added to the Cflags field after the header search path
• filebase, the base name to use for the pkg-config file, as an example the value of libfoo would produce a pkg-config file called libfoo.pc
• install_dir the directory to install to, defaults to the value of option libdir followed by /pkgconfig
• libraries a list of built libraries (usually results of shared_library) that the user needs to link against
• libraries_private list of strings to put in the Libraries.private field
• name the name of this library
• subdirs which subdirs of include should be added to the header search path, for example if you install headers into ${PREFIX}/include/foobar-1, the correct value for this argument would be foobar-1
• requires list of strings to put in the Requires field
• requires_private list of strings to put in the Requires.private field
• variables a list of strings with custom variables to add to the generated file. The strings must be in the form name=value and may reference other pkgconfig variables, e.g. datadir=${prefix}/share. The names prefix, libdir and installdir are reserved and may not be used.
• version a string describing the version of this library