How to compile

[y0shir]

Greetings! It's been a while since I last compiled plugins so I started with ./autogen.sh && ./configure but it gave me an errors

./configure
checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether the compiler supports GNU C... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to enable C11 features... none needed
checking for g++... g++
checking whether the compiler supports GNU C++... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking for g++ option to enable C++11 features... none needed
checking for stdio.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no
checking for gcc option to enable large file support... none needed
./configure: line 5146: PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG: command not found
./configure: line 5147: PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG: command not found
checking operating system type... Linux
checking whether the C++ compiler supports -std=gnu++17... yes
checking whether the C/C++ compiler supports -Wtype-limits... yes
checking whether the C/C++ compiler supports -Wno-stringop-truncation... yes
checking whether the C++ compiler supports -Woverloaded-virtual... yes
checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... (cached) no
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for rm... /usr/bin/rm
checking for mv... /usr/bin/mv
checking for cp... /usr/bin/cp
checking for ar... /usr/bin/ar
checking for ranlib... /usr/bin/ranlib
checking for windres... no
checking for library containing pthread_create... none required
./configure: line 6997: syntax error near unexpected token `GLIB,'
./configure: line 6997: `PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GLIB, glib-2.0 >= 2.32)'

[mschwendt]

When you ran "autogen.sh", you were missing at least one development package that would have provided the m4 macros for pkg-config toolset.

[radioactiveman]

My assumption is that pkgconf is not installed at all.