=head1 DESCRIPTION

This file contains some tips for using and developing PkgConfig on
the Microsoft Windows platform (without Cygwin).

=head1 STRAWBERRY PERL

Starting with Strawberry Perl 5.20.0.1, PkgConfig is included as part
of Strawberry.  It can be run from the command line as pkg-config,
just as the c version works on Unix style platforms.  Unfortunately,
the version included with 5.20.0.1 is incompatible with the version
on CPAN.

This will be fixed in the next version of Strawberry which will be
either the first in the 5.20.1 series or 5.20.0.2.

You may optionally patch the .pc files that come with Strawberry Perl
5.20.0.1 or earlier to either get the same pkg-config capability which
will come with future versions of Strawberry (if you are using 5.18
or earlier) or to fix the incompatability that was introduced in
Strawberry 5.20.0.1.  Simply follow these steps:

=over 4

=item 1. install PkgConfig

You will need to tell it to install the script as pkg-config:

 C:\> cpanm PkgConfig --configure-args=--script=pkg-config

You may optionally install the script as ppkg-config as well to match
the behavior on Unix style platforms, though the main reason for that
named version is simply to avoid replacing the "real" pkg-config commonly
available on Unix style platforms.

 C:\> rem alternatively
 C:\> cpanm PkgConfig --configure--args=--script=pkg-config,ppkg-config

=item 2. patch the .pc files that come with Strawberry

The .pc files that come with older versions of Strawberry include
references to C</mingw>.  These need to be changes to
C<${pcfiledir}/../..>.  To make this easy, I have written a script to
automate the task.

 C:\PkgConfig\> perl win32\fix_old_strawberry.pl

This is not done automatically as part of the install of PkgConfig
because the current maintainer of PkgConfig feels that these files are
the domain of the Strawberry team and the user of Strawberry.

This script will make backups of the .pc files with a .bak extension.

This script will refuse to run on newer versions of Strawberry that do
not need to be patched.

=back

=head1 SYMLINKS

This distribution contains symbolic links for historical reasons, which
may be inconvenient if you are trying to run one of the scripts in the
C<script> directory.  Out of respect for the original author, this
design decision will not be revisited.  There are some work arounds
that may help.

=over 4

=item run the .pm file

To try simple stuff out you can "run" the .pm file like it is a script.

 C:\PkgConfig\> perl lib\PkgConfig.pm libarchive --cflags

=item create windows symlinks

Symbolic links are available on newer versions of windows that use NTFS
as the file system.  Unfortunately, it appears to create them requires
administrator access.  I have provided a script in the C<win32> directory
which you can use to replace the files in the C<script> directory with
real symbolic links.  You will need to run this script with adminstrator
rights:

 C:\PkgConfig\> perl win32\fix_links.pl

This may not work reliably if you are using the same git repository for
both MSWin32 and cygwin.

=item run the tests

As of commit cc2a2d8892 you should be able to run the full test suite on
MSWin32 from a git repository.  This works because lib/PkgConfig.pm is
used as the script when MSWin32 and the .git directory are detected.

This leaves creating a tarball (C<make dist>) and releasing it as the
only activities which cannot easily be performed on Windows.

=back