title: What is the best way to install pkg-config on Mingw in 2014?
body: <p>What is a good way at this moment (October 2014) to install <a href="https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config/" rel="noreferrer">pkg-config</a> on Windows in a <em>(no HTTPS)</em> <a href="http://www.mingw.org/" rel="noreferrer">MinGW</a> / <a href="https://mingw-w64.org/" rel="noreferrer">MinGW-w64</a> environment? (See also <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1710922/how-to-install-pkg-config-in-windows">this question from 2009</a>.)</p>
  <p>If there is a binary package that does not pull in GTK+, that would be great, but I haven't found one. Building from source is fine if that's the way to go.</p>
  <p>On the <a href="http://www.mingw.org/wiki/FAQ" rel="noreferrer">Mingw FAQ</a> it says: (This is from 2009 the latest, judging from a comment at the bottom of the page.)</p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>How do I get pkg-config installed?</p>
  <p>The difficulty in getting pkg-config installed is due its circular depency on glib. To install pkg-config, you should first install the GTK-runtime, the installer is found at <em>(dead link)</em> <a href="https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=121075" rel="noreferrer">https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=121075</a>. The pkg-config binary can be obtained from <em>(new link, but does not mention pkg-config)</em> <a href="https://www.gtk.org/download/windows.php" rel="noreferrer">https://www.gtk.org/download/windows.php</a>. Place pkg-config.exe in your MinGW bin directory.</p>
  <p>There are other pkg-config projects that don't have the circular dependency issue. They include:</p>
  <ul>
  <li><p><em>(dead link)</em> <a href="https://github.com/nenolod/pkgconf" rel="noreferrer">pkgconf</a></p>
  </li>
  <li><p><a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/pkgconfiglite/files/" rel="noreferrer">pkg-config-lite</a></p>
  </li>
  </ul>
  </blockquote>
  <p>I've quickly looked at pkg-config-lite, but it looks like it was last updated in 2012. Also, I think pkg-config now includes its own version of Glib to break the circular dependency, so it should be possible to build without Glib.</p>
  <p>I've done searches for &quot;mingw pkg-config&quot;. Any suggestions welcome.</p>