Re: building a library using gtk+

[Rick Jones <rick jones2 hp com>]

> I handle this by making my own .pc file for my library. It's fairly
> easy to get your configure script to generate one and install it
> correctly, but I could post an example if you like.
>
> One you have a mylibrary.pc installed, your users can compile and link 
> with:
>
>  g++ main.cpp `pkg-config mylibrary --cflags --libs`
>
> and they should never need to see any gtk/glib/whatever nonsense. 

No, but if they for whatever reason happen to be using a different 
compiler than the one used to produce mylibrary, the pkg-config command 
could give them options specific to a compiler they aren't using.

I've run into this a couple times while porting netperf4.

rick jones
portable adj, code that compiles under more than one compiler