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V. Kuznetsov

09 Dec, 2014 07:06 PM

Is it possible to have pkg-config installed? I need it to build an extension by cmake.

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 09 Dec, 2014 07:20 PM

   

   Are there any instructions on how to install that?

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2. 2 Posted by V. Kuznetsov on 09 Dec, 2014 07:35 PM

   

   According to http://stackoverflow.com/a/22363820 you need to download it + 2 dependent packages, extract them and move selected files (see link) into C:\MinGW\bin

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3. 3 Posted by V. Kuznetsov on 09 Dec, 2014 08:16 PM

   

   I tried http://stackoverflow.com/a/26453379

   appveyor DownloadFile http://win32builder.gnome.org/packages/3.6/glib_2.34.3-1_win32.zip
   appveyor DownloadFile http://win32builder.gnome.org/packages/3.6/pkg-config_0.28-1_win32.zip
   appveyor DownloadFile http://win32builder.gnome.org/packages/3.6/pkg-config-dev_0.28-1_win32.zip
   7z x glib_2.34.3-1_win32.zip -oC:\MinGW -r
   7z x pkg-config_0.28-1_win32.zip -oC:\MinGW -r
   7z x pkg-config-dev_0.28-1_win32.zip -oC:\MinGW -r
   

   It didn't help.

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4. Support Staff 4 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 09 Dec, 2014 08:21 PM

   

   That's worrying me :)

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5. 5 Posted by V. Kuznetsov on 10 Dec, 2014 01:09 PM

   

   appveyor DownloadFile http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/dependencies/pkg-config_0.26-1_win32.zip
   appveyor DownloadFile http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/glib/2.28/glib_2.28.8-1_win32.zip
   appveyor DownloadFile http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/dependencies/gettext-runtime_0.18.1.1-2_win32.zip
   7z x pkg-config_0.26-1_win32.zip -oC:\MinGW -r
   7z x glib_2.28.8-1_win32.zip -oC:\MinGW -r
   7z x gettext-runtime_0.18.1.1-2_win32.zip -oC:\MinGW -r -y
   

   Still doesn't work.

   Feodor, do you know any workaround to install 'rugged' ruby gem? gem install rugged fails

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6. 6 Posted by V. Kuznetsov on 10 Dec, 2014 01:12 PM

   

   pkg-config is required to build Rugged

   error backtrace:

   Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
   175 
   176        C:/Ruby193/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb 
   177checking for cmake... yes
   178checking for gmake... no
   179checking for make... yes
   180checking for pkg-config... no
   181ERROR: pkg-config is required to build Rugged.
   182*** extconf.rb failed ***
   183Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of
   184necessary libraries and/or headers.  Check the mkmf.log file for more
   185details.  You may need configuration options.
   186 
   187Provided configuration options:
   188 --with-opt-dir
   189 --without-opt-dir
   190 --with-opt-include
   191 --without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
   192 --with-opt-lib
   193 --without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
   194 --with-make-prog
   195 --without-make-prog
   196 --srcdir=.
   197 --curdir
   198 --ruby=C:/Ruby193/bin/ruby
   

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7. Support Staff 7 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 10 Dec, 2014 06:29 PM

   

   I've seen here and here that GTK is required.

   GTK is available on unstable build worker image. You can choose it on UI or if you use appveyor.yml:

   os: unstable
   

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8. 8 Posted by V. Kuznetsov on 11 Dec, 2014 06:54 PM

   

   Same error

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9. 9 Posted by Jim on 31 Mar, 2017 08:45 AM

   

   I know this thread is terribly old, but it's one of the first Google results for "appveyor pkg-config", so hopefully people from the future will find this and be helped: the snippet in comment 5 does produce a working pkg-config. I use a very similar script:

     - curl -LO %GNOME_BASE%/dependencies/pkg-config_0.26-1_win32.zip
     - curl -LO %GNOME_BASE%/glib/2.28/glib_2.28.8-1_win32.zip
     - curl -LO %GNOME_BASE%/dependencies/gettext-runtime_0.18.1.1-2_win32.zip
     - 7z x -y pkg-config_0.26-1_win32.zip -oC:\pkg-config > nul
     - 7z x -y glib_2.28.8-1_win32.zip -oC:\pkg-config > nul
     - 7z x -y gettext-runtime_0.18.1.1-2_win32.zip -oC:\pkg-config > nul
   <pre><code>
   You can also use Chocolately and install the `pkgconfiglite` package, but be warned: it&#39;s got some bugs (in particular, it doesn&#39;t output library dirs correctly with `--msvc-syntax`.</code>
   </pre>
   

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10. Ilya Finkelshteyn closed this discussion on 25 Aug, 2018 02:16 AM.