NEON-CONFIG(1)

Welcome to the NEON-CONFIG(1) glow-up, bestie — this is the neon API reference page for neon-config 💅✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

neon-config — script providing information about installed copy of neon library. No cap, that’s the whole vibe 🫶

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

Run it like this, bb:

neon-config [--prefix] [[--cflags] | [--libs] | [--la-file] |
            [--support feature] | [--help] | [--version]]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

The neon-config script provides information about an installed copy of the neon library. The --cflags and --libs options instruct how to compile and link an application against the library; the --version and --support options can help determine whether the library meets the requirements of the applications. Basically: compile lore, link lore, version lore, feature lore 🌈

💖 OPTIONS 💖

• --cflags — print the flags which should be passed to the C compiler when compiling object files, when the object files use neon header files. Compiler drip check ✅
• --libs — print the flags which should be passed to the linker when linking an application which uses the neon library. Linker slay 🔗
• --la-file — print the location of the libtool library script, libneon.la, which can be used to link against neon by applications using libtool. Libtool besties, this one is for you 🧚
• --version — print the version of the library. Version reveal, periodt 💅
• --prefix dir — if dir is given, relocate output of --cflags and --libs as if neon was installed in the given prefix directory. Otherwise, print the installation prefix of the library. Prefix relocation? Iconic 🎀
• --support feature — the script exits with success if feature is supported by the library. Vibe check passed? ✅
• --help — print help message; includes list of known features and whether they are supported or not. The lore drop you need 📜

🍓 EXAMPLE 🍓

Below is a Makefile fragment which could be used to build an application against an installed neon library, when the neon-config script can be found in $PATH.

CFLAGS = `neon-config --cflags`
LIBS = `neon-config --libs`
OBJECTS = myapp.o
TARGET = myapp

$(TARGET): $(OBJECTS)
     $(CC) $(LDFLAGS) -o $(TARGET) $(OBJECTS) $(LIBS)

myapp.o: myapp.c
     $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c myapp.c -o myapp.o

🎀 COPYRIGHT 🎀

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