Qt static libraries - pkgconfig again

[Holger Schröder]

On Friday 23 February 2007 23:18:04 Christian Ehrlicher wrote:
> Holger Schröder schrieb:
> > On Friday 23 February 2007 21:38:56 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> >> Simon Hausmann wrote:
> >>> Christian is right there, also because qmake does not generate
> >>> pkg-config files on Windows.
> >>
> >> May I suggest then that we together standardise on a dependency file for
> >> static libraries (and platforms where such a thing is necessary)? More
> >> or less like the libtool .la file.
> >>
> >> CMake will need it anyways for supporting static builds of other
> >> applications.
> >
> > well, pkg-config is available on win32, at least that is what
> > http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/wiki/ says, although i haven´t tested it
> > yet.
> >
> > so what about this option: for qt 4.2 we leave things as they are, and
> > for qt 4.3 the trolls install .pc files on windows too, and we use them
> > under linux and under windows ?
>
> pkg-config is available on win32, but it's only used in msys environment
> (where you have a linux-like directory layout) -> the location of the pc
> files is not defined on windows. A path can be added with
> PKG_CONFIG_PATH (afaik), but imho this just makes the whole kde
> compilation more complex than we gain advantages from using pkg-config
> on win32.
>
perhaps we should keep the future in mind. i think it would be good, if we 
agree on a directory layout for the installation of kde on windows under a 
prefix. but the user should be able to unpack the kde package into any 
directory on the windows machine and have a working installation. and right 
now there are still some limitations in kde, which make this impossible, like 
the paths in kde4-config are hardcoded.

perhaps pkg-config could help us there too.

> Christian

Holger