u-config — smaller, simpler, portable pkg-config clone

u-config was written by Chris Wellons <wellons@nullprogram.com>.  This manual page was written by
       Andrea Pappacoda <andrea@pappacoda.it> for the Debian project (and may be used by others).

Debian                                             2024-08-22                                        U-CONFIG(1)

u-config  is  a  small,  highly  portable  pkg-config and pkgconf clone. It retrieves compiler and linker
       flags, version, and other dependency information of software packages.

       Package metadata is retrieved from “.pc” text files, located in a system-specific path. You can  override
       the  default  search  path  with  environment variables like PKG_CONFIG_PATH.  See “ENVIRONMENT” for more
       information.

       This manual page describes the u-config utility in particular. For general information  about  pkg-config
       concepts  and  its  file  format,  refer  to manual pages provided by other projects, like pkgconf(1) and
       pc(5).

       u-config supports a subset of the options of other pkg-config implementations. For a  list  of  supported
       options, use the --help option. Some of them are unique to u-config:

       --newlines
               Separate  arguments  by  line feeds instead of spaces, which is sometimes useful like in the fish
               shell or when manually examining output.

       --msvc-syntax
               Translates and prints compiler arguments into a syntax compatible with  the  MSVC  compiler.  For
               example, -llibname becomes libname.lib.

u-config  supports  all  the  important  pkg-config  run-time  environment  variables.  To  see which are
       supported, use the --help option.

       $ u-config --cflags --libs foo
       -I/usr/include/foo -DFOO_HAS_BAR=1 -lfoo

       u-config — smaller, simpler, portable pkg-config clone

pkgconf(1), pc(5)

u-config [options] package [package...]