Alex#pkgconfig's rules about when it does or does not apply a sysroot base seem to be very inconsistent. I guess I'm going to have to look at the actual code to see why this may be. #crosscompiling #buildroot
Mikael Jagan*.pc files are so routinely broken that when I find one generated correctly also for static linking, I weep cathartically. #pkgconfig
Tomodachi94🤔 I wonder if pkg-config (PC) and Ant could be extended so that Ant can detect external task providers automatically. PC allows one to set arbitrary variables in their configuration files. Ant supports specifying external task providers with the `-lib` flag.
Dirk Schnelle-WalkaTrying to compile my #opensource project with #visualstudio instead of #qtcreator on #linux
Why is the world under Windows to Linux so much different for #cmake ?
I spent too much time to find a solution for the non-existing #pkgconfig under this environment. Finally #mingw saved me and an adaptation of the path setting.
Michel Lind 
Hot take after an afternoon un-fsck-ing a #CMake project: `*Config.cmake` files are so much harder to debug than `*.pc` #PKGConfig files, so not only are you trying to make sense of a Turing complete project definition but all the transitive dependencies that happen to use CMake too
I'm increasingly a #meson fan.
dorotaCA trick for #compiling on #Fedora:
when the compilation fails on a missing package, you might see sth like:
"library scintilla-3 not found, tried pkgconfig"
With #dnf, it's easy to fix:
```
dnf install "pkgconfig(scintilla-3)"
```
and dnf will find the package by library name for you!
(And then compile again and again and find out that 20 other packages were missing...)