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On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Patrick Gundlach
Hi,
I try to build LuaTeX on windows / mingw/msys, but I fail with pkg-config:
Hi Patrick, I wanted to send you a link to a recent discussion, but then realized that it was a private one, so I'm sending you the relevant citation: On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Peter Breitenlohner wrote:
On Wed, 2 Jan 2013, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
it is cairo's configure that, even though it does not really need pkg-config, still tests for its existence.
ouch, I didn't realize this because I do have pkg-config for linux-ix86, linux-x86_64, and Mingw32 (cross).
We certainly don't want to fiddle with cairo's fairly complex configure when we can expect new versions every now and then.
You can, however, provide a fake pkg-config->/bin/true somewhere in your PATH. This won't give you any CPP or LD flags but satisfies cairo.
I have just tested this with i386-pc-mingw32-pkg-config->/bin/true. In addition I had to use --with-fontconfig-{includes,libdir}=DIR but these are not needed for Mac OS X.
Regards Peter
Can anyone help me?
Install pkg-config or point the variable to /bin/true when configuring. (An alternative would be patching Cairo's configure scripts in TeX Live, but apparently that's not desired. Or you could file a bug report to Cairo, requesting not to fail at pkg-config check when there is no need for it.)
Do all versions of LuaTeX require pkg-config or cairo?
Only since 0.74, I believe. Mojca