Re: gnustep-make experiment

[Dennis Leeuw]

Just to chime in... I compiled pkg-config from source a couple of times 
and it does need glib.

I haven't been able to work around glib.

Dennis

Wim Oudshoorn wrote:
> Matt Rice <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > On 2007-02-09 09:18:02 -0800 Wim Oudshoorn <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > So next I tried to download pkg-config version 0.21 and compile it
> > > (on
> > > MS Windows). Of course that failed because I hadn't installed glib.
> > > So
> > > I gave up.  (I tried once to get glib compiled on windows and it
> > > wasn't a pleasant experience.)
> > It does not require anything but a reasonably well working C compiler
> > and a C library,
> > but can use an installed glib if that is present.
>
> Well, did you actually try compiling pkg-config?  
> I did not investigate deeply but the suggested way of compiling:
>
> ./configure
> make
>
> Did not work.  ./configure succeeded splendidly, but make
> failed and the reason was that glib.h could not be found.
>
> But I don't want to start a discussion in the GNUstep mailing lists on
> how to install pkg-config.   I just wanted to see how it would work on windows.
>
> Wim Oudshoorn.
>
>
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