tldr/pages/common/pkg-config.md

pkg-config

Provide the details of installed libraries for compiling applications. More information: https://manned.org/pkg-config.

• Get the list of libraries and their dependencies:

pkg-config --libs {{library1 library2 ...}}

• Get the list of libraries, their dependencies, and proper cflags for gcc:

pkg-config --cflags --libs {{library1 library2 ...}}

• Print the version of the linked modules:

pkg-config --modversion {{module1 module2 ...}}

• Compile your code with libgtk-3, libwebkit2gtk-4.0 and all their dependencies:

c++ example.cpp $(pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-3.0 webkit2gtk-4.0) -o example