Desktop packages for bindings development

Packages of the bindings (afb-binding) exist for common desktop linux distributions.

Installing the development package allows to write bindings that runs on the desktop computer of the developer.

It is very convenient to quickly write and debug a binding.

Retrieving compiling option with pkg-config

It is provided a configuration file for pkg-config. Typing the command

pkg-config --cflags afb-binding

Print flags use for compilation:

$ pkg-config --cflags afb-binding
-I/opt/local/include -I/usr/include/json-c

For linking, you should use

$ pkg-config --libs afb-binding
-ljson-c

It automatically includes the dependency to json-c. This is activated through Requires keyword in pkg-config.