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-rw-r--r-- | doc/languages-frameworks/pkg-config.section.md | 9 |
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diff --git a/doc/languages-frameworks/index.xml b/doc/languages-frameworks/index.xml index 7d404643d369..3774924c0be4 100644 --- a/doc/languages-frameworks/index.xml +++ b/doc/languages-frameworks/index.xml @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ <xi:include href="octave.section.xml" /> <xi:include href="perl.section.xml" /> <xi:include href="php.section.xml" /> + <xi:include href="pkg-config.section.xml" /> <xi:include href="python.section.xml" /> <xi:include href="qt.section.xml" /> <xi:include href="r.section.xml" /> 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. |