[Development] Getting build flags for platforms without pkg-config

[Konstantin Tokarev]

30.10.2017, 22:11, "Thiago Macieira" <thiago.macieira at intel.com>:
> On segunda-feira, 30 de outubro de 2017 11:20:25 PDT Konstantin Tokarev wrote:
>>  > As for MSVC, the issue will be similar: teaching pkg-config about the MSVC
>>  > linker syntax. Hint: there's no -l
>>
>>  pkg-config knows nothing about nature of compiler flags, it can easily
>>  handle bundle-specific option or cl.exe argument
>
> It does, actually.
>
> For example, it suppresses -L that point to the system dirs, like -L/usr/lib.
> But it doesn't suppress -F options like that.
>
> It does deduplication for -I and -l options, but it doesn't for -framework or
> directly-named .lib files. Or for -I flags on Windows, for some reason.

Actually, on Windows pkg-config has --msvc-syntax that allows to use unix-style
flags in .pc files and convert them to cl.exe flags in the output.

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/pkg-config/tree/README.win32#n24

>
> It may be sufficient to get things going, but it's not a tool designed for those
> environments.
>
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> Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
>   Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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Konstantin