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# pkgconfig

Allows to configure the pkg-config tool. More...

Since: | Qt 1.13

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## Properties

- executableFilePath : string
- libDirs : stringList
- staticMode : bool
- sysroot : path

## Detailed Description

The `pkgconfig` module is used to fine-tune the behavior of the `pkg-config` tool, which is potentially employed when looking up dependencies.

## Property Documentation

executableFilePath : string

The path to the `pkg-config` executable.

Default: auto-detected

libDirs : stringList

Set this if you need to overwrite the default search directories. The values given here will be forwarded to the tool via the `PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR` environment variable.

Note: You do not need to set this for cross-compilation in order to point `pkg-config` to the sysroot. Qbs does that for you.

Default: Undefined

staticMode : bool

If this property is `true`, then calls to `pkg-config` will include the `--static` option. Set this if your product is to be linked statically.

Default: `false`

sysroot : path

This property controls the value of the PkgConfigProbe.sysroot property.

Set this property if you need to overwrite the default search sysroot path used by `pkg-config`.

This can be useful if `pkg-config` files are located in the directory other than qbs.sysroot. This is the case on macOS platform - all XCode profiles are sysrooted to the SDK directory, but `pkg-config` is typically intalled using Brew and resides in the `/usr/local` directory.

Setting this property to `undefined` or empty (`""`) value will use pkg-config's default search paths:

     qbs build modules.pkgconfig.sysroot:undefined

Default: `""` on macOS, `qbs.sysroot` on other platforms