xmake install and pkg-config

[maluoi]

First of all, thanks so much for creating xmake, it's easily the most enjoyable build tool I've worked with yet!

I'm building a cross-platform library, StereoKit, and I have some community members that are trying to add it as a dependency in their own projects on Linux. They're using pkg-config to locate and reference their dependencies, but xmake install for StereoKit doesn't currently output any pkg-config information.

I've looked around in docs and samples for how to output the pkg-config information, and I haven't quite managed to pin it down. Do you have any tips or pointers here for how to go about doing this? My build file is here if that's helpful.

[waruqi]

You can write a xxx.pc file in after_install(), like this

xmake/xmake/modules/private/action/require/impl/actions/install.lua

Lines 77 to 91 in a1ebb6a

	local file = io.open(pcfile, 'w')
	if file then
	file:print("prefix=%s", package:installdir())
	file:print("exec_prefix=${prefix}")
	file:print("libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib")
	file:print("includedir=${prefix}/include")
	file:print("")
	file:print("Name: %s", package:name())
	file:print("Description: %s", package:description())
	file:print("Version: %s", package:version_str())
	file:print("Libs: %s", libs)
	file:print("Libs.private: ")
	file:print("Cflags: %s", cflags)
	file:close()
	end

or wait this feature #1268

[maluoi]

Oh wow, that'll totally work! Thanks a bunch :)