Package Config file generator

Overview

This is a simple python (2 or 3) script for generating package config (pkg-config or .pc) files. Feel free to adapt it to your needs/fork it.

What does it do?

• Interactive prompt for package info (name, version, description)
• Command line mode for those who don't like interactive
• Automatic linker command generation

Provide it a directory with libraries (.so, .dylib, .etc) and it will generate linker commands. Try it out in the test directory to see it how it works.

Example use

Use the interactive mode for a text prompt. There are dummy lib files in the test_libs directory (not real libraries, just for demonstration).

python main.py -i test_libs 

Provide info directly via command line. Here we provide the name, version and prefix of the package (Boost in this case). The prefix or -p represents where the main package is installed on your computer. Lastly, we write the output to a package config file (boost.pc) in the current directory.

python main.py -n Boost -v 1.60.0 -p /usr/local/Cellar/boost/1.60.0_2 -o boost.pc

We can also redirect the output to a file.

python main.py -n Boost -p /usr/local/Cellar/boost/1.60.0_2 -v 1.60.0 /usr/local/Cellar/boost/1.60.0_2 -d "Boost is awesome" > boost.pc

The paths used in these examples exist on my machine. You'll have to determine where these libraries exist on your own machine.

Once you have a .pc file, you should place it in the pkg-config path. One standard path is this directory. Check it to see if there are other .pc files there.

/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/

Usage

usage: python main.py [-h] [-i] [-n PKG_NAME] [-v PKG_VERSION] [-p PKG_PREFIX]
	       [-d PKG_DESCRIPTION] [-o OUTPUT_FILE]
	       lib_dir

Generate a package config file automatically-ish

positional arguments:
  lib_dir               The directory containing the library files. This is
			normally the 'lib' folder for your specific package.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -i, --interactive     Use this flag to be prompted for package information
			(name, version, description)
  -n PKG_NAME, --pkg_name PKG_NAME
			The name of the package
  -v PKG_VERSION, --pkg_version PKG_VERSION
			The version number of the package
  -p PKG_PREFIX, --pkg_prefix PKG_PREFIX
			The prefix to be used in the package config file
  -d PKG_DESCRIPTION, --pkg_description PKG_DESCRIPTION
			The description for the package
  -o OUTPUT_FILE, --output_file OUTPUT_FILE
			The path to write your package config file to