[poppler] Requires.private field missing in poppler.pc

suzuki toshiya mpsuzuki at hiroshima-u.ac.jp
Wed Mar 21 03:03:21 UTC 2018


> Therefore, it would
> be considerable to discuss cairo in poppler-glib.pc,

oh, poppler-glib.pc defines cairo dependency explicitly.
sorry for overlooking that.

Regards,
mpsuzuki


suzuki toshiya wrote:
> Dear Jeroen,
> 
> Indeed, some tweaks for poppler.pc and poppler-cpp.pc are
> expected, but cairo is not in there.
> 
> There is CairoOutputDev which is dependent with cairo,
> but libpoppler does not include it. The object files for
> CairoOutputDev are directly linked (not via any library)
> to pdftocairo and libpoppler-glib. Therefore, it would
> be considerable to discuss cairo in poppler-glib.pc,
> but no need for poppler.pc and poppler-cpp.pc.
> 
> I would try to propose some patch.
> 
> Regards,
> mpsuzuki
> 
> Albert Astals Cid wrote:
>> El dimarts, 20 de març de 2018, a les 18:57:32 CET, Jeroen Ooms va escriure:
>>> Currently pkg-config does not correctly list the dependency libs for
>>> static linking when running with --static:
>>>
>>>   pkg-config --libs --static poppler-cpp
>>>     -lpoppler-cpp -lpoppler
>>>
>>> The output of --static should also include the recursive dependencies
>>> such as -lcairo -llcms2 -lopenjp2 -ltiff. For comparsion try
>>> 'pkg-config --libs libcurl' with and without --static'.
>>>
>>> I think to resolve this, cmake should add a line like this to the
>>> poppler.pc file:
>>>
>>>   Requires.private: cairo
>> Side note, afaik we don't link cairo to poppler core at all.
>>
>>> Or alternatively hardcode dependency linker flags in Libs.private
>>> field in poppler.pc:
>>>
>>>   Libs.private: -lcairo -lz -lgobject-2.0 -lffi -lglib-2.0 -lintl
>>> -lpcre -lintl -liconv -lpcre -lpixman-1 -lfontconfig -lexpat
>>> -lfreetype -lz -lbz2 -lpng16 -lz
>>>
>>> And possibly other dependencies that poppler was configured with.
>>> However I am not sure how to implement this but I think it should be
>>> an option in cmake.
>> As previously stated, personally i don't really care about static linking, so 
>> patches welcome.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>   Albert
>>
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