On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Adriaan de Jong <dej...@fox-it.com> wrote: > Does pkgconfig work/exist across many platforms, or is it a dependency that > might hurt us on for example Mac OS, Windows or *BSD? The reason why I ask is > that an argument against other systems such as scons and cmake was that they > created extra build dependencies. Is it difficult to install, or is it > shipped by default on most platforms?
>From my experience with a lot of other projects, pkg-config exists in most of them. And when it is absent it is not too complex to specify the *_CFLAGS/*_LIBS for the dependencies. We have an open issue with OSX, we will see how it goes... but I almost sure it also has pkg-config...
