Install pkg-config .pc file also on Windows/MSVC

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Install pkg-config .pc file also on Windows/MSVC #169

Closed traversaro closed 1 year ago

traversaro commented 2 years ago

On Windows, both vcpkg and conda package managers explicitly support the use of pkg-config .pc files. Consuming this files is done either via CMake's FindPkgConfig module, or directly using pkg-config tool with the --msvc-syntax command line option (see https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pkg-config/pkg-config/-/blob/master/README.win32).

For this reason, I do not think there is any reason for not installing .pc files if the library is configured on Windows.

traversaro commented 2 years ago

Related PRs on dependencies:

https://github.com/ros/console_bridge/pull/96
https://github.com/ros/urdfdom_headers/pull/72

traversaro commented 1 year ago

Do you have any opinion on this @scpeters @clalancette @shane (i.e. the mantainers according to https://github.com/ros/urdfdom/blob/3.1.1/package.xml )? Thanks in advance!