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| author | Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com> | 2023-01-30 09:48:53 +0100 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2023-01-30 09:48:53 +0100 |
| commit | 663c41affd45f58c45363fbb440705cadc258ff4 (patch) | |
| tree | 8b17d44e2aa89ff2369dd667a9499be7ff918a4a /doc/languages-frameworks/pkg-config.section.md | |
| parent | 28065fed29d92117b9e2a366412d2fc4aac887b1 (diff) | |
| parent | d8a217801e21d561e47a91ea60ec086397fc7466 (diff) | |
Merge pull request #212282 from hercules-ci/pkg-config-packages
defaultPkgConfigPackages: init
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diff --git a/doc/languages-frameworks/pkg-config.section.md b/doc/languages-frameworks/pkg-config.section.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..ee0a471be3e5 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/languages-frameworks/pkg-config.section.md @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +# pkg-config {#sec-pkg-config} + +*pkg-config* is a unified interface for declaring and querying built C/C++ libraries. + +Nixpkgs provides a couple of facilities for working with this tool. + + - A [setup hook](#setup-hook-pkg-config) bundled with in the `pkg-config` package, to bring a derivation's declared build inputs into the environment. + - The [`validatePkgConfig` setup hook](https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#validatepkgconfig), for packages that provide pkg-config modules. + - The `defaultPkgConfigPackages` package set: a set of aliases, named after the modules they provide. This is meant to be used by language-to-nix integrations. Hand-written packages should use the normal Nixpkgs attribute name instead. |