Trying to build pkg-config

Question

I'm trying to build pkg-config in Windows so that I can make GIMP plugins. To build pkg-config, I apparently need to build autoconfig and automake. To build them, I need M4. To build that, I seem to need to build autoconfig and automake. What do I need to do?

I'm using MinGW-W64 and MSys2.

Answer 1

If you're using MSYS2 it is available to you already. Just use pacman which comes with MSYS2 from the MSYS2 shell. To update pacman 's package list run:

pacman -Syu --noconfirm

To get pkg-config run:

pacman -S --noconfirm git pkg-config

If you still want to have those configure tools run:

pacman -S --noconfirm git autoconf libtool automake