{"id":12626,"date":"2022-10-01T08:59:47","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T03:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-how-to-use-pkg-config-in-cmake-juci\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T08:59:47","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T03:29:47","slug":"solved-how-to-use-pkg-config-in-cmake-juci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-how-to-use-pkg-config-in-cmake-juci\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] How to use pkg-config in CMake (juCi++)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-42675590\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"42675590\" data-parentid=\"42634710\" data-score=\"3\" data-position-on-page=\"1\" data-highest-scored=\"1\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"1\" itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>If your IDE handles CMake and Meson, it should be able to detect your project files. I&#8217;d say go for Meson, it&#8217;s the future, and CMake syntax has a few quirks that Meson doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<h2>Meson:<\/h2>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mesonbuild\/meson\/wiki\">Meson documentation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s a basic <code>meson.build<\/code> that expects to find your application code in <code>main.c<\/code> and produces a binary named <code>gtk3-test<\/code>.<\/p>\n<pre><code>project('gtk3-test', 'c')\n\ncc = meson.get_compiler('c')\ndeps = dependency ('gtk+-3.0')\nsources = ['main.c']\n\nexecutable('gtk3-test', sources, dependencies: deps)\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<h2>CMake<\/h2>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cmake.org\/documentation\/\">CMake documentation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For CMake, just give a look at my answer to How do I link gtk library more easily with cmake in windows? (which also works under Linux). It was for GTK+2, but adapting it to GTK+3 is easy, so here&#8217;s the <code>CMakeLists.txt<\/code> to use:<\/p>\n<pre><code>project (gtk3-test)\ncmake_minimum_required (VERSION 2.4)\n\nfind_package (PkgConfig REQUIRED)\npkg_check_modules (GTK3 REQUIRED gtk+-3.0)\n\ninclude_directories (${GTK3_INCLUDE_DIRS})\nlink_directories (${GTK3_LIBRARY_DIRS})\nadd_executable (gtk3-test main.c)\nadd_definitions (${GTK3_CFLAGS_OTHER})\ntarget_link_libraries (gtk3-test ${GTK3_LIBRARIES})\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mt24\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>            <span class=\"d-none\" itemprop=\"commentCount\">2<\/span> <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n<p>solved How to use pkg-config in CMake (juCi++) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] If your IDE handles CMake and Meson, it should be able to detect your project files. I&#8217;d say go for Meson, it&#8217;s the future, and CMake syntax has a few quirks that Meson doesn&#8217;t. 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