Re: building a library using gtk+

["John Cupitt" <jcupitt gmail com>]

On 5/17/06, Rick Jones <rick jones2 hp com> wrote:
> > 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 hadn't thought if that :-( I imagine it's relatively uncommon (none
of the pkg-config output for gtk looks compiler-specific on OS X or
Breezy), but you're right, it could be a problem.