Missing the pkgconfig file(.pc)

[taozuhong]

I'm not sure the Libs.Private is right, pls help me correct it

# 
#  pkg_config.pc.in
#
#  pkg_config configuration file 
#  For a detailed description of options, please visit
#  Dan Nicholson’s Guide to pkg-config (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config/)
#

prefix=/ucrt64
includedir=${prefix}/include/freetds/
libdir=${prefix}/lib/

Name: libfreetds
Version: 1.3.15
Description: A free implementation of TDS protocol
Requires: 
Requires.private: libssl libcrypto
Cflags: -I${includedir}
Libs: -L${libdir} -lct -lsybdb
Libs.private: -lws2_32 -ladvapi32 -lkernel32 -lcrypt32 -lsecur32

[freddy77]

I saw the linked issues on MINGW-packages. It's not clear where this need is coming. Some comments:

• by default there's no include/freetds installed directory, files are installed in include;
• you are pointing to 2 libraries, not one;
• the proposed file is Windows specific;
• given Requires.private are Libs.private necessary?

It seems the .pc files would be needed because MingW packaging is changing the defaults so IMO they should be just in MingW.

[taozuhong]

Yes, it's specific for Windows MSYS2.

Split pc file into sqlserver.pc and sybase.pc ?

[freddy77]

I would suggest dblib.pc and ctlib.pc. FreeTDS provides 3 libraries: DB-library, CT-library and ODBC. ODBC is not supposed to be used directly but through the ODBC driver manager (like unixODBC or iODBC), the others are used independently.

[taozuhong]

Great idea, let it be born.

[taozuhong]

#517 will fix this issue with CMake.
not complete yet with makefile.

[taozuhong]

I found that Arch Linux package missing the pkg-config file(.pc) too.

[freddy77]

I found that Arch Linux package missing the pkg-config file(.pc) too.

which one?

By the way, one problem is that neither Autoconf not CMake are using pkg-config so the dependency you are generating are assuming they are present while we are not checking them.