pkgconfig under Windows ?

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Sunday 02 October 2011, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote:
> On Saturday 01 October 2011, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > On Wednesday 21 September 2011, Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote:
> > > Michael Jansen <kde at michael-jansen.biz> writes:
> > > > Not sure here. After a (short) talk to some kde windows guys i
> > > > remember he said there is pkgconfig for windows but it is considered
> > > > completly broken. I think thats why most modules do that magic. Do
> > > > ignore it on windows even if there.
> > > 
> > > I've often times heard non-KDE people say pkgconfig used to be broken
> > > but should work fine nowadays, so I'm a bit confused here. It'd be nice
> > > if the kde-windows guys could provide more details on what's the
> > > current state of pkgconfig for them.
> > 
> > Yes.
> > Also, whenever I said somewhere that our cmake files must be able to find
> > stuff also without pkgconfig, people replied that nowadays it works just
> 
> fine
> 
> > under Windows.
> > 
> > So, Windows developers: what's the current state of pkg-config under
> > Windows
> 
> ?
> 
> > Does it work ?
> 
> Yes
> 
> > Do you use it ?
> 
> Yes. For Qt, KDE and other project types as well.

I headed over to the cmake list, since this issue is not specific to KDE, but 
any cmake-using project, and I want to get more opinions and experiences on 
this over there at cmake at cmake.org:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.tools.cmake.user/39446

So, if you want to influence the outcome and want to contribute with your 
experiences, please comment on the cmake list (subscribe here: 
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Thanks
Alex