CMAKE Could NOT find PkgConfig (missing: PKG_CONFIG_EXECUTABLE)

Question

I have been building freerpd client for Eclipse in Ubuntu 14.04 but an error is popping up :

Could NOT find PkgConfig (missing:  PKG_CONFIG_EXECUTABLE)

when I use CMake 2.8. How can I get rid of it?

Solution 1

Try:

sudo apt-get install pkg-config

Solution 2

I ran into this nuts problem while compiling opencv. The problem is that CMake is not finding the pkg-config executable.

Fix like this:

1)In ubuntu terminal,

which pkg-config

You will get "usr/bin/pkg-config" if it's installed

2) Add

set(PKG_CONFIG_EXECUTABLE "/usr/bin/pkg-config")

to your Cmake file, or in your build directory, run "cmake-gui" to add it using the GUI. Now, Cmake will find the pkg-config.

Solution 3

https://github.com/vitalif/grive2/issues/74

SOLUTION that worked for me:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall pkg-config cmake-data

Comments

[Admin]

eclipse is out of question as it is not involved in building, cmake-data is already there ,is there any possiblity that i can correct it with path environment ?

[Admin]

Does sudo apt-get install --reinstall pkg-config cmake-data help, in case any of their files were corrupted?

[Ananthu r nath]

i tried that but no use

[Dimitri Podborski]

Did you also try sudo apt-get install cmake-data like dobey suggested?

[Ananthu r nath]

yes , [email protected]:~/FreeRDP-masteropy$ sudo apt-get install cmake-data [sudo] password for ananthu: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done cmake-data is already the newest version. cmake-data set to manually installed. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 594 not upgraded.

[Ananthu r nath]

but it is not solved then also

[alberto favero]

Linux Ubuntu 18.4.