pkgconfig is a Python module to interface with the pkg-config command line tool and supports Python 2.6+.

It can be used to

• find all pkg-config packages :

  >>> packages = pkgconfig.list_all()

• check if a package exists :

  >>> pkgconfig.exists('glib-2.0')
  True

• check if a package meets certain version requirements :

  >>> pkgconfig.installed('glib-2.0', '< 2.26')
  False

• query CFLAGS and LDFLAGS :

  >>> pkgconfig.cflags('glib-2.0')
  '-I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include'
  
  >>> pkgconfig.libs('glib-2.0')
  '-lglib-2.0'

• parse the output to build extensions with setup.py :

  >>> d = pkgconfig.parse('glib-2.0 gtk+-2.0')
  >>> d['libraries']
  [u'gtk+-2.0', u'glib-2.0']

  The pkgconfig.parse function return a dictonary of list. The lists returned are an accurate representations of the equivalent pkg-config call, both in content and order.

If pkg-config is not on the path, raises EnvironmentError.

The pkgconfig module is licensed under the MIT license.

Bug fix releases released on December 1st and 2nd 2016.

• Include the data folder in the distribution in order to run tests
• Improve the tests

Released on November 30th 2016.

• Potential break: switch from result set to list
• Expose --list-all query
• Added support for PKG_CONFIG environment variable

Released on November 6th 2013.

• Multiple packages can now be parsed with a single call to .parse.

First release on September 8th 2013.