GMT-CONFIG(1)

✨ GMT-CONFIG(1) ✨

okay bestie, so this page lives in the GMT manual section 1, and it's literally about one lil tool called gmt-config 🎀

💖 NAME 💖

gmt-config — get info about the gmt installation 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

gmt-config [ options ]

🫶 DESCRIPTION 🫶

so gmt-config is the girl the developers go to when they need the technical tea about the GMT install that's currently on your machine 🔥 like which include files you gotta hand over, where the library is hiding, that kinda thing. it's giving backstage pass, no cap 💅

👑 REQUIRED ARGUMENTS 👑

None. nada. zero. she needs nothing from you to do her thing ✨

💅 OPTIONAL ARGUMENTS 💅

• --help — show this help message and dip out. bye! 👋
• --all — spill every option at once, the whole menu 🍓
• --bits — is the library built 32-bit or 64-bit? she'll tell you 💀
• --cc — the C compiler that got used
• --cflags — the pre-processor and compiler flags that got used
• --datadir — GMT's data directories
• --dataserver — the URL of the remote GMT data server
• --dcw — where the DCW database is at
• --dep-libs — the dependent libraries
• --gshhg — where the GSHHG database is at
• --has-fftw — is FFTW used in the build, yes or no
• --has-pcre — is PCRE used in the build
• --has-lapack — is LAPACK used in the build
• --has-openmp — was GMT built with OpenMP support or nah
• --includedir — the include directory
• --libdir — the library directory
• --libs — the library linking information
• --plugindir — GMT's plugin directory
• --prefix — the install prefix
• --version — the library version ⭐

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

so say you wanna know which compiler flags an external thing needs to find the GMT function prototypes — literally just run this:

gmt-config --cflags

and boom, you got it 🧚

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

gmt

💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

2025, The GMT Team

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and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this was version 6.6, dated Jul 23, 2025 — slay, go configure something iconic 👑✨