kiwifb / pkgconfig

A Python interface to the pkg-config command line tool

pkgconfig

pkgconfig is a Python module to interface with the pkg-config command line tool and supports Python 2.6+.

It can be used to

• find all pkg-config packages

  >>> packages = pkgconfig.list_all()
  

• check if a package exists

  >>> pkgconfig.exists('glib-2.0')
  True
  

• check if a package meets certain version requirements

  >>> pkgconfig.installed('glib-2.0', '< 2.26')
  False
  

• query CFLAGS and LDFLAGS

  >>> pkgconfig.cflags('glib-2.0')
  '-I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include'
  
  >>> pkgconfig.libs('glib-2.0')
  '-lglib-2.0'
  

• parse the output to build extensions with setup.py

  >>> d = pkgconfig.parse('glib-2.0 gtk+-2.0')
  >>> d['libraries']
  set([u'glib-2.0', u'gtk+-2.0'])
  

If pkg-config is not on the path, raises EnvironmentError.

The pkgconfig module is licensed under the MIT license.

Changelog

Version 1.1.0

Released on November 6th 2013.

• Multiple packages can now be parsed with a single call to .parse.

Version 1.0.0

First release on September 8th 2013.