pkg-config

Provide the details of installed libraries for compiling applications.

• Get the list of libraries and their dependencies:

pkg-config --libs {library1 library2 ...}

• Get the list of libraries, their dependencies, and proper cflags for gcc:

pkg-config --cflags --libs {library1 library2 ...}

• Compile your code with libgtk-3, libwebkit2gtk-4.0 and all their dependencies:

c++ example.cpp $(pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-3.0 webkit2gtk-4.0) -o example

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