.TH xml2-config 1 "3 April 2022" Version 1.2.0 .SH NAME xml2-config - script to get information about the installed version of libxml2 .SH SYNOPSIS .B xml2-config [\-\-prefix\fI[=DIR]\fP] [\-\-libs] [\-\-cflags] [\-\-version] [\-\-help] .SH DESCRIPTION \fIxml2-config\fP is a tool that is used to determine the compile and linker flags that should be used to compile and link programs that use \fIlibxml2\fP. .SH OPTIONS \fIxml2-config\fP accepts the following options: .TP 8 .B \-\-version Print the currently installed version of \fIlibxml2\fP on the standard output. .TP 8 .B \-\-libs Print the linker flags that are necessary to link a \fIlibxml2\fP program. Add \-\-dynamic after \-\-libs to print only shared library linking information. .TP 8 .B \-\-cflags Print the compiler flags that are necessary to compile a \fIlibxml2\fP program. .TP 8 .B \-\-prefix=PREFIX If specified, use PREFIX instead of the installation prefix that \fIlibxml2\fP was built with when computing the output for the \-\-cflags and \-\-libs options. This option must be specified before any \-\-libs or \-\-cflags options. .SH AUTHOR This manual page was written by Fredrik Hallenberg , for the Debian GNU/linux system (but may be used by others).