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NAME
u-config — smaller, simpler, portable pkg-config clone
SYNOPSIS
u-config [ options ] package [ package ... ]
DESCRIPTION
u-config is a small, highly portable pkg-config and pkgconf clone. It retrieves compiler and linker flags, version, and other dependency information of software packages.
Package metadata is retrieved from “.pc” text files, located in a system-specific path. You can override the default search path with environment variables like PKG_CONFIG_PATH. See “ENVIRONMENT” for more information.
This manual page describes the u-config utility in particular. For general information about pkg-config concepts and its file format, refer to manual pages provided by other projects, like pkgconf (1) and pc (5).
u-config supports a subset of the options of other pkg-config implementations. For a list of supported options, use the --help option. Some of them are unique to u-config :
--newlines
Separate arguments by line feeds instead of spaces, which is sometimes useful like in the fish shell or when manually examining output.
--msvc-syntax
Translates and prints compiler arguments into a syntax compatible with the MSVC compiler. For example, -l libname becomes libname.lib .
ENVIRONMENT
u-config supports all the important pkg-config run-time environment variables. To see which are supported, use the --help option.
EXAMPLES
$ u-config --cflags --libs foo
-I/usr/include/foo -DFOO_HAS_BAR=1 -lfoo
SEE ALSO
pkgconf (1), pc (5)
AUTHORS
u-config
was written by
Chris Wellons <
wellons@nullprogram.com
>. This
manual page was written by
Andrea Pappacoda <
andrea@pappacoda.it
> for the
Debian project (and may be used by others). Debian
2024-08-22
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