Hi Jürgen, *, On Tue, Jul 1, 2025 at 4:10 PM Juergen Funk <j-f...@outlook.de> wrote: > > Thanks for the hint, my next question is, > why the pkgconf of cygwin doesn't work (compiler error) even though it's the > same version number, I've added in the LibreOffice build documentation for > the hard way that.
answered that in the other mail. pkgconf on windows is only used for meson, and meson needs windows paths, hence the need for a windows version of pkg-config/pkgconf - and from the two pkgconf doesn't have external dependencies/is easy to build also for mac, where pkgconf is also only used for meson. If meson would also accept values FOO_CFLAGS and similar to bypass running pkgconfig, then this wouldn't be a problem. But meson insists on running pkgconfig but also insists on windows-style-paths/cannot deal with unix-style paths on windows. > But I did not install the meson 1.7.2, but it compile/link, this confuses me, > why install LODE, this library although it goes without, is it necessary for > the hard way docu? Also touched on that in the other mail. The idea was for users to install meson and use that, but people just cannot follow instructions, ignored configure's error messages and warnings. There's the additional complication about meson calls other python scripts as build-commands and how enable-python=fully-internal should behave (from my POV) - some distros install meson in a way that it cannot be run with "python3.x /path/to/meson" and that did further complicate things, lead to adding pointless workarounds. To get rid of all that meson was added as an external and is used if the user doesn't override it by specifying MESON=/path/to/mesontouse ciao Christian
