The use of caca-config is deprecated. The more generic tool pkg-config should be used instead.

--cflags

Print the compiler flags that are necessary to compile a program or library that uses libcaca.

--exec-prefix=DIR

If specified, use DIR instead of the installation exec prefix that libcaca was build with when computing the output for the --cflags and --libs options. This option must be specified before any of the --cflags and --libs options.

--libs

Print the linker flags that are necessary to link a program or library that uses libcaca.

--prefix=DIR

If specified, use PREFIX instead of the installation prefix that libcaca was built with when computing the output for the --cflags and --libs options. This option is also used for the exec prefix if --exec-prefix was not specified. This option must be specified before any of the --cflags and --libs options.

--version

Prints the currently installed version of libcaca on standard output.

gcc -o main.o $(caca-config --cflags) -c main.c

is how you might use caca-config to compile a C source file for an executable program.

gcc -o my_app $(caca-config --libs) main.o util.o

is how you might use caca-config to link compiled objects into an executable program.

This manual page was written for sdl-config by Branden Robinson, originally for Progeny Linux Systems, Inc., and the Debian Project. It was adapted to libcaca by Sam Hocevar.