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M Qwadezo
M Qwadezo

Reputation: 93

pkg-config cannot find package on Windows with MSYS2

I installed MSYS2 and inside the MSYS2 (MINGW64) shell I installed pkg-config and gtk4. When I ran the command

pkg-config --modversion gtk4

inside the MSYS2 shell, everything just worked fine. But as soon as I ran the exact same command inside a Windows shell, I got this error message:

Package gtk4 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gtk4.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'gtk4' found

I then tried fiddling around with the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable, but that did nothing. Then, I tried

where pkg-config

and got this:

d:\devkitPro\msys2\usr\bin\pkg-config.exe
D:\msys64\mingw64\bin\pkg-config.exe

Notice anything strange? Windows isn't running the same pkg-config that I was using with MSYS2 but is instead running devkitPro's installation.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1907

Answers (1)

M Qwadezo
M Qwadezo

Reputation: 93

How to solve this

Open up the editor for the PATH environment variable, then select the path that leads to the undesired pkg-config installation (aka the first line of the where-output). Click "Move down" repeatedly until you arrive at the very bottom. Click OK. Restart your terminal. Done.

Upvotes: -1

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