anyone using pkg-config on Windows?

[Russ Cox]

We would like to fix the behavior of cgo invoking pkg-config on Windows, for golang.org/issue/16455. From the failure in the report, it appears that pkg-config --libs printed the actual text "C:/Program Files (x86)/libgit2/lib" as part of its output, without any kind of escaping of the spaces in that path. In contrast, the Unix pkg-config always escapes a space with a backslash. We're trying to figure out whether there is some commonly used Windows port of pkg-config that does escaping differently and, if so, what the rules are. 

Does anyone use pkg-config on Windows? Can you see what output you get from --cflags and --libs for any real library that you have installed in a path with spaces?

Thanks.

Russ

[Justin Israel]

I don't know if this is helpful, since I don't personally work in Windows, but Windows users of a binding I help maintain have had to deal with pkg-config as part of the process. Part of their proposed solution was using pkg-config lite? 

Thread here:

https://github.com/gographics/imagick/issues/87

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