Add temporarily path to pkg-config within CMake script?

cmake pkg-config
usr1234567 picture usr1234567 · Dec 8, 2013 · Viewed 8k times · Source

For external libraries the user can specify a non-standard location by adding the path to the CMAKE_FLAGS or by adding -DMYLIB_ROOT. Within the CMake script I want to find the library's pkg-config pc file. Because the pc file is not in the standard folder, it is not found by pkg-config with FindPkgConfig's pkg_search_module.

I tried to add the user-given path to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH but it seemed to be ignored:

include(FindPkgConfig)
set(PKG_CONFIG_PATH "${PKG_CONFIG_PATH}:${MYLIB_ROOT}/lib/pkgconfig")
pkg_search_module(PKG_MYLIB mylib)

if(${PKG_MYLIB_FOUND})
...

When I call pkg-config from the terminal with the modified PKG_CONFIG_PATH set, it find the pc file. What am I doing wrong? How can I get pkg_search_module working? I'd like to avoid calling pkg-config directly from CMake.

Answer

lgnom picture lgnom · Sep 24, 2014

Maybe the following will do the job

set( ENV{PKG_CONFIG_PATH} "$ENV{PKG_CONFIG_PATH}:${MYLIB_ROOT}/lib/pkgconfig" )

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