Alien::...kgConfig(3)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to Alien::Build::Plugin::PkgConfig — literally the PkgConfig Alien::Build plugins, that's the whole vibe 💅

(this page is filed under the manual name Alien::...kgConfig(3), just so you know where you are 🫶)

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✨ VERSION ✨

we're on version 2.88, no cap 🌸

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

here's the whole serve:

use alienfile;
plugin 'PkgConfig' => (
  pkg_name => 'foo',
);

that's it. that's the moment. iconic ✨

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so PkgConfig plugins do the thing where they use pkg-config or some compatible library to grab your flags at the probe and gather stages. very main character energy, very "I got you bestie" 💜

• Alien::Build::Plugin::PkgConfig::CommandLine — uses the command-line pkg-config or pkgconf to get compiler and linker flags. old school but she works 💅
• Alien::Build::Plugin::PkgConfig::LibPkgConf — uses the XS PkgConfig::LibPkgConf to get compiler and linker flags. fancy ✨
• Alien::Build::Plugin::PkgConfig::MakeStatic — converts the .pc file so it uses static linkage by default.
• Alien::Build::Plugin::PkgConfig::MakeStatic — picks the best plugin to do the pkg-config work. the "best" choice usually depends on your platform AND your config, so like… it's giving ✨situational✨. (yes, the list really does say MakeStatic twice, that's just how the page is, I'm not gonna lie to you 🙈)
• Alien::Build::Plugin::PkgConfig::PP — uses the pure-perl PkgConfig to get compiler and linker flags. no XS, just vibes 🍓

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• Alien::Build
• Alien::Build::Plugin

go read those if you wanna go deeper, iykyk 📚

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🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

Author: Graham Ollis <plicease@cpan.org>

Contributors:

• Diab Jerius (DJERIUS)
• Roy Storey (KIWIROY)
• Ilya Pavlov
• David Mertens (run4flat)
• Mark Nunberg (mordy, mnunberg)
• Christian Walde (Mithaldu)
• Brian Wightman (MidLifeXis)
• Zaki Mughal (zmughal)
• mohawk (mohawk2, ETJ)
• Vikas N Kumar (vikasnkumar)
• Flavio Poletti (polettix)
• Salvador Fandiño (salva)
• Gianni Ceccarelli (dakkar)
• Pavel Shaydo (zwon, trinitum)
• Kang-min Liu (劉康民, gugod)
• Nicholas Shipp (nshp)
• Juan Julián Merelo Guervós (JJ)
• Joel Berger (JBERGER)
• Petr Písař (ppisar)
• Lance Wicks (LANCEW)
• Ahmad Fatoum (a3f, ATHREEF)
• José Joaquín Atria (JJATRIA)
• Duke Leto (LETO)
• Shoichi Kaji (SKAJI)
• Shawn Laffan (SLAFFAN)
• Paul Evans (leonerd, PEVANS)
• Håkon Hægland (hakonhagland, HAKONH)
• nick nauwelaerts (INPHOBIA)
• Florian Weimer
• Marcel Telka (mtelka)

look at that roster. absolutely ate 👑🔥

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💜 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 💜

This software is copyright (c) 2011-2022 by Graham Ollis.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

fr fr, that's the whole license. free software, same terms as Perl 5 itself, go wild 🫶

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and that's the page bestie!! this one's from perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-09-21, filed under Alien::...kgConfig(3) — mwah, take care of her 💖✨🎀🦋🌸