cups-config(1)

✨ cups-config(1) — the OpenPrinting girlie's guide ✨

okay so bestie, this is the cups-config(1) manual page from the OpenPrinting girlies, and I'm gonna walk you through it like we're texting at 2am 💖

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🌸 NAME 🌸

cups-config — get cups api, compiler, directory, and link information (deprecated).

💀 yeah. deprecated. I said what I said. keep reading though, it still works, we're just being honest with each other.

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

cups-config --api-version
cups-config --build
cups-config --cflags
cups-config --datadir
cups-config --help
cups-config --ldflags
cups-config [ --image ] [ --static ] --libs
cups-config --serverbin
cups-config --serverroot
cups-config --version

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So the way that cups-config works is: it's the little bestie that tells application developers exactly what command-line options they need to hand to the compiler and the linker, plus where the filters, configuration files, and drivers actually live on this machine. 🫶

Every single value it reports goes straight to standard output. no cap.

⚠️ real talk though: this command is deprecated and will be removed in a future version of CUPS. The pkg-config(1) command should be used instead. like, genuinely. the glow-up is pkg-config(1). cups-config is the ex we still have on read receipts. 😭

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

The cups-config command accepts the following command-line options:

• --api-version — Reports the current API version, in major.minor form.
• --build — Reports a system-specific build number. (cute, mysterious, machine-specific. iykyk 💅)
• --cflags — Reports the necessary compiler options.
• --datadir — Reports the default CUPS data directory.
• --help — Reports the program usage message. the "hello?? what do I do" button 🌈
• --ldflags — Reports the necessary linker options.
• --libs — Reports the necessary libraries to link to.
• --serverbin — Reports the default CUPS binary directory, where filters and backends are stored. 👑
• --serverroot — Reports the default CUPS configuration file directory.
• --static — When used with --libs, reports the static libraries instead of the default (shared) libraries.
• --version — Reports the full version number of the CUPS installation, in major.minor.patch form.

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

Show the currently installed version of CUPS — the classic. the vibe check:

cups-config --version

Compile a simple one-file CUPS filter. look at her go, she ate:

cc `cups-config --cflags --ldflags` -o filter filter.c \
    `cups-config --libs`

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💀 DEPRECATED OPTIONS 💀

The following options are deprecated but continue to work for backwards compatibility:

• --image — Formerly used to add the CUPS imaging library to the list of libraries.

🙈 she's still here, still functioning, still technically invited to the party. just. y'know. on thin ice.

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• cups(1)
• pkg-config(1)
• CUPS Online Help (http://localhost:631/help)

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💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

Copyright © 2020-2024 by OpenPrinting.

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okay bestie that's the whole page, no notes, periodt. 🧚 this was cups-config(1) from the CUPS manual, source/version CUPS, dated 2021-03-10 — love her, use pkg-config(1) instead, mwah 💖