Re: Custom pet projects compiling for NetBSD n00bs

[nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Jan 08, 2021 at 08:48:42AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Another piece of the puzzle is pkg-config, implemented in pkgsrc as
> pkgconf, which allows querying the needed flags.
> 
>   $ pkg-config --cflags libpng
>   -I/usr/pkg/include/libpng16 
>   $ pkg-config --libs libpng
>   -Wl,-R/usr/pkg/lib -L/usr/pkg/lib -lpng16 -lz 

You should definitely use pkg-config to set the flags required for
dependencies if you want people packaging your software to be happy,
btw.