[Qt-interest] pkg-config and QtCore

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 01.06.10 14:13:06, Reece Dunn wrote:
> On 1 June 2010 13:18,  <Oliver.Knoll at comit.ch> wrote:
> > Stefanos Antaris wrote on Tuesday, June 01, 2010 1:35 PM:
> >
> >> I was just trying to built a program which needs pkg-config.Propably
> >> i have made a mistake on Qt libraries and pkg-config cannot find
> >> QtCore.
> >
> > I am not sure whether Qt itself generates a pkg-config entry for itself - are you sure this is supported? Such that you can build an application which requires Qt and use pkg-config to find the Qt installation (that is your scenario, if I understood you correctly)? I have never heard of that feature (which does not mean that it does not exist ;)
> 
> I am doing this in an application of mine using autoconf/automake:
> 
>     PKG_CONFIG(QtCore >= 4.6)
> 
> This works at least on Ubuntu 10.04 (or at least Qt 4.6) -- the files
> are placed in the standard pkgconfig location.
> 
> NOTE: Have you installed the dev packages for QtCore, etc.? You need
> these to put the pkgconfig files in the correct place.
> 
> I'm not sure if older Qt packages support this (i.e. I don't know when
> this was added).

At least 4.4 supports it too (the pkgconfig files are in
<qt-location>/lib/pkgconfig by default).

Andreas

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