Im using meson together with conanpkgconfig on windows. Fwiw, an alternative for automating your building process is to use autotools autoconfautomake. From the toplevel thrift directory, you can copy the file by running. Then you can simply unzip this downloaded zipfile, and then copy the pkgconfig. Unhappily pkg config doesnt comes already installed once youve installed mingw and msys. Boost libraries are intended to be widely useful, and usable across a broad spectrum of applications. Generating the python bindings in windows is nontrivial. A configfile package is a set of files provided by upstreams for downstreams to use. The dependency detector works with all libraries that provide a pkgconfig file.
Install the relevant development packages for libz and libbz2 if you need. Windows is differ from linux in way you build software. Once again, you have to unzip this downloaded zipfile, and. You can use pkgconfig to query system libraries during compilation. I think you might need the libhdhomerun sources, or at least the windows binaries. And, to make things worst, installing pkg config on windows is quite difficult and not at all straighforward.
Pkgconfig support for eclipse cdt eclipse plugins, bundles. Howto specify the location of libraries for use with mingw. If you are creating a conan package for a library a and the build system uses. Pkgconfig support will set compiler and linker flags automatically that gcc needs to build selected packages specifically includes, libraries, and some other gcc flags. For now you can use vcpkg libraries by overriding build scripts but in the future i guess build scripts can start. Boost library with a modulefile named boost can set.
Im not sure if the windows app includes the libraries, but on sds website you can download the library sources under the linux downloads. Notice that pkg config has suppressed part of the libs field for both modules. If found, the package configuration file is loaded and this. If you plan to use your tools from the windows command prompt, youre in the right place. Building %configuration% could not find pkgconfig missing. In this case sudo make install will put libpjproject. Usually, youll want to install all available boost libraries. The pkg config program is used to retrieve information about installed libraries in the system. Notices about boost library configurationfor example, the regex library. With the patches in the ticket, bjam just needs telling how to spit out and install the pkgconfig.
Finding the correct library to link feature request for pkg config supporth. Distributed under the boost software license, version 1. Adding libraries to projects qt creator manual qt documentation. Cmake script can be used without changes for linux and windows, but for windows it is necessary to do some handwork hand work can be automated. If one or more libraries is unknown, pkg config exits with a nonzero code, and the contents of stdout are undefined. The boost license encourages the use of boost libraries for all users with minimal restrictions. It is still possible to compile ndnsim on this platform, but either compiler or boost libraries or both need to get upgraded. In order to detect third party libraries, pkgconfig is used however we dont use pkgconfig for some libraries e. Nov 15, 2011 but our kdes windows developer team says that even if pkg config is found under windows, and even if it reports something, they actively want to ignore it. The toplevel module loads userdefined configuration files, userconfig. Do note, however, that on ms windows it is not a colonseparated list.
Some of boost does require a linker flag, but you dont need a. Builtin boost dependency takes precedence over explicitly provided. Several crt c runtime library versions must be supported. The primary use of pkgconfig is to provide the necessary details for compiling and linking a program to a library. This tutorial explains how to modify the pcl cmake options and tweak your building process to better fit the needs of your project andor your systems requirements. I tried to build arrayfire solution as described here in windows, i installed cmake and vcpkg without problems. Compile the test program above with the following command. Always use pkgconfig when linking against libtorrent. But our kdes windows developer team says that even if pkgconfig is found under windows, and even if it reports something, they actively want to ignore it. Finding the correct library to link feature request for pkgconfig supporth.
If boost was built using the boost cmake project or from boost 1. This module looks for the package configuration file called boostconfig. This is a stepbystep procedure to get pkgconfig working on windows, based on my experience, using the info from oliver zendels comment. The primary use of pkg config is to provide the necessary details for compiling and linking a program to a library. If your project uses thirdparty libraries, we recommend that you use vcpkg to install them. It greatly simplifies the acquisition and installation of thirdparty libraries on windows, linux, and macos. Cross platform support project can be held in a version control system and even if the packages have been selected in linux, pulling the project in windows will automatically. Following this approach your library a will import to a local directory the. What if a certain dependency provides neither a findmodule nor vendorpackaged cmake files.
What about supporting vc pkg to querying installed libraries. Notice that pkgconfig has suppressed part of the libs field for both modules. The pkgconfig program is used to retrieve information about installed libraries in the system. Using libxml2 headers in windows kumar harsh medium. Later i did not have to give gcc the i flag alongwith the path to the boost libraries to use boost. If pkgconfig can find all the libraries on the command line, each librarys version string is printed to stdout, one version per line. When a user installs a package in the local cache, the directory will probably be different from the directory. Staticdynamic linkage, debugrelease configurations, x86x64 cpu target, win8winxp toolset. See documentation of the boost cmake package configuration for details on what it provides. In the windows environment, you have to install them in order to take advantage of them. If one or more libraries is unknown, pkgconfig exits with a nonzero code, and the contents of stdout are undefined. If your usrshareaclocal directory doesnt contain the pkg. If found, the package configuration file is loaded and this module returns with no further action. The thrift compiler exe and the languagedependent libraries.
Discovering the presence of libraries through autoconf as described in section 4, finding libraries is somewhat limiting. On windows, only ordinary static libraries use the lib prefix. Nor did i do any pkgconfig cflags libs of any sort. By default, pkgconfig looks in the directory prefixlibpkgconfig for these files.
I have created this little fork to avoid having to install another glib dll under mingw. Boostdep is a tool for generating boost dependency reports. Building on windows cmake error could not find hdhomerun. By default, pkg config looks in the directory prefixlibpkgconfig for these files. Pkg config support will set compiler and linker flags automatically that gcc needs to build selected packages specifically includes, libraries, and some other gcc flags. Introduction to pkgconfig the pkgconfig package contains a tool for passing the include path andor library paths to build tools during the configure and make file execution this package is known to build and work properly using an lfs7. The reason for this is that for those packages under windows the user decides at installtime where the package will be installed, while the pcfiles for pkg config have been generated at buildtime with the install. I installed boost using sudo aptget install on ubuntu. Jul 10, 20 there are two ways to work around this in windows. There were multiple versions of the packages available, and in each case i just downloaded the latest version.
To link against boost with meson, simply list which libraries you would like to use. In order to detect third party libraries, pkg config is used however we dont use pkg config for some libraries e. The library is easily found by cmake but cairo uses autotools. Indirect support for pkg config packages is also provided via the findpkgconfig module. From what ive test yet, meson work perfectly on linux but on windows i will unfortunately use cmake with vc pkg.
When building on windows, the path boostbuild puts targets in may be too long. The reason for this is that for those packages under windows the user decides at installtime where the package will be installed, while the pcfiles for pkgconfig have been generated at buildtime. It will also try to use the microsoft implementation on windows via the system. This keeps pkgconfig from interfering with the linker operation. In addition, if pkgconfig is available then it is triggered to get hints on their locations. How is gcc able to know where boost is and how is it linking to it automatically. This keeps pkg config from interfering with the linker operation. This is a stepbystep procedure to get pkg config working on windows, based on my experience, using the info from oliver zendels comment. It contains such usefull libraries as curl, freetype, glfw3, sdl2, openssl and others vcpkg can be used from any build system as descibed here. Use gcc with pkgconfig in windows 7 mingw sungkwang. If pkg config can find all the libraries on the command line, each librarys version string is printed to stdout, one version per line. If you manage to figure out how to get the python bindings generated, please let me know. Errors compiling pcl project in windows 8 using cmake.
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