Hello everyone, I am currently working on KConfig bindings for Rust as a part of the Season of KDE. Most of the KDE projects seem to detect and find the location of libraries using CMake. However, finding these libraries from non-CMake projects is not trivial. Currently, I am relying on a hacky solution that uses the `kf5-config` binary to find the install location of KDE frameworks.
It would be great if all the frameworks generated pkg-config by default since it is a great language-independent way of specifying packages. The Extra CMake Modules do contain a module `ECMGeneratePkgConfigFile` (https://api.kde.org/ecm/module/ECMGeneratePkgConfigFile.html#ecmgeneratepkgconfigfile) to somewhat help with this, however, we need to list the dependencies again which is not ideal as pointed out in the merge request I opened (https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kconfig/-/merge_requests/107). There is an open issue on the CMake repository about this (https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/-/issues/22621). So I just wanted to ask others for input about generating pkg-config files or for better ideas to detect KDE Frameworks from Rust in a platform-independent manner since some KDE frameworks are not Linux specific. Ayush Singh
