xml2-config(1)

💖 xml2-config — bestie's guide to the lil script that knows where libxml2 lives 💖

okay so before we even start: this is the xml2-config manual page, section 1, and it's been sitting here at version 1.2.0 this whole time. we're folding that in up top like a hair clip, and the whole thing is signed off at the bottom, mwah. 💅

✨ NAME ✨

xml2-config — a script to get information about the installed version of libxml2 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

xml2-config [--prefix[=DIR]] [--libs] [--cflags] [--version] [--help]

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

okay so real talk: xml2-config is a tool that is used to determine the compile and linker flags that should be used to compile and link programs that use libxml2. 🫶

that's it. that's the whole job. it's giving "helpful little oracle that tells your compiler where the libxml2 stuff is at." no cap. ✨

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

xml2-config accepts the following options:

• --version — prints the currently installed version of libxml2 on the standard output. 🦋
• --libs — prints the linker flags that are necessary to link a libxml2 program. 💫 add --dynamic after --libs to print only shared library linking information.
• --cflags — prints the compiler flags that are necessary to compile a libxml2 program. 🔥
• --prefix=PREFIX — if specified, use PREFIX instead of the installation prefix that libxml2 was built with when computing the output for the --cflags and --libs options.

⚠️ bestie listen, this one matters: this option must be specified before any --libs or --cflags options. order is everything here, it's lowkey the main character rule of this page. 💀

👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manual page was written by Fredrik Hallenberg <hallon@lysator.liu.se>, for the Debian GNU/linux system (but may be used by others). 🎀

Version 3 April 2022 — and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🫶 you just read the xml2-config manpage at version 1.2.0, from that 3 April 2022 date stamp, and honestly? iconic. go compile something. periodt. 💖✨🌈