pkgconfig
pkgconfig
is a Python module to interface with the pkg-config
command line tool and supports Python 2.6+.
It can be used to
find all pkg-config packages
>>> packages = pkgconfig.list_all()
check if a package exists
>>> pkgconfig.exists('glib-2.0') True
check if a package meets certain version requirements
>>> pkgconfig.installed('glib-2.0', '< 2.26') False
query CFLAGS and LDFLAGS
>>> pkgconfig.cflags('glib-2.0') '-I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include' >>> pkgconfig.libs('glib-2.0') '-lglib-2.0'
get all variables defined for a package:
>>> pkgconfig.variables('glib-2.0') {u'exec_prefix': u'/usr'}
parse the output to build extensions with setup.py
>>> d = pkgconfig.parse('glib-2.0 gtk+-2.0') >>> d['libraries'] [u'gtk+-2.0', u'glib-2.0']
The
pkgconfig.parse
function return a dictonary of list. The lists returned are an accurate representations of the equivalentpkg-config
call, both in content and order.
If pkg-config
is not on the path, raises EnvironmentError
.
The pkgconfig
module is licensed under the MIT license.
Changelog
Version 1.4.0
- Add boolean
static
keyword to output private libraries as well - Raise original
OSError
as well
Version 1.3.1
- Fix compatibility problems with Python 2.6
Version 1.3.0
- Add variables() API to query defined variables
- Disable Python 3.2 and enable Python 3.5 and 3.6 tests
- Fix #16: handle spaces of values in .pc files correctly
Version 1.2.1 and 1.2.2
Bug fix releases released on December 1st and 2nd 2016.
- Include the
data
folder in the distribution in order to run tests - Improve the tests
Version 1.2.0
Released on November 30th 2016.
- Potential break: switch from result set to list
- Expose --list-all query
- Added support for PKG_CONFIG environment variable
Version 1.1.0
Released on November 6th 2013.
- Multiple packages can now be parsed with a single call to
.parse
.
Version 1.0.0
First release on September 8th 2013.