Does pkg-config support multi-configuration?

[jpr42]

I recently tried adding pkg-config support to a repo.

It was going fairly well until I hit a snag in my integration testing on Windows.

Ultimately CMAKE_DEBUG_POSTFIX was being used to distinguish binaries for the Windows platform.

IE: The binary name became foobard on Windows Debug builds and foobar Windows Release builds.

Causing my integration tests to fail on Windows debug builds.

pkg-config didn't seem to have a good solution for this, so I abandoned adding pkg-config support.

Is this simply a limitation of PC files? How does vcpkg deal with this type of scenario?

[Neumann-A]

vcpkg has lib/pkgconfig and debug/lib/pkgconfig however you cannot use multi-config generators with that approach (yet, since nobody fixed FindPkgConfig for that yet). internally vcpkg does not use mutli config generators, i.e. only Ninja with CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE set appropriately.