Re: [Monotone-devel] nvm.stripped on Win32 MinGW; pkg-config

[Daniel Atallah]

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 9:09 PM, Stephen Leake
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Since most of the required libraries support pkg-config, it would make
> sense to use pkg-config with MinGW.
>
> However, there is a classic catch-22:
>
> pkg-config requires glib
>
> glib requies pkg-config
>
> !!!
>
> So I need a MinGW-compatible binary of one of the above to get
> started.
>
> The hosting website for pkg-config
> (http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/releases) has no binaries.
>
> The hosting website for glib (http://www.gtk.org) has Win32 dlls, but
> not the .a files needed by MinGW gcc.
>
> Does anyone have a solution for this?

Binaries of both pkg-config and glib are available here:
http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html

The "dev" downloads for glib include the headers and link libraries.

-D