Compiling https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka on Windows / pkg-config

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Yes, I know the README on GitHub - qarmin/czkawka: Multi functional app to find duplicates, empty folders, similar images etc. says this is difficult / impossible.

My issue is that something is trying to call pkg-config on Windows. How can I replace this or stub it with something that gives the right output? I've installed gtk4 using gvsbuild so theoretically the Rust bindings will work.

  Compiling gio-sys v0.17.4
The following warnings were emitted during compilation:

warning: Could not run `"pkg-config" "--libs" "--cflags" "glib-2.0" "glib-2.0 >= 2.66"`

error: failed to run custom build command for `glib-sys v0.17.4`

Windows 10, Visual Studio build tools are installed.

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Split because I apparently can't post too many links

After installing pkg-config via msys2 and adding it to my PATH, I get

  cargo:warning=`"pkg-config" "--libs" "--cflags" "glib-2.0" "glib-2.0 >= 2.66"` did not exit successfully: exit code: 1
  error: could not find system library 'glib-2.0' required by the 'glib-sys' crate

  --- stderr
  Package glib-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
  Perhaps you should add the directory containing `glib-2.0.pc'
  to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
  Package 'glib-2.0', required by 'virtual:world', not found
  Package 'glib-2.0', required by 'virtual:world', not found

I've then been searching for how to add paths to the linker flags, Rustc-link-search in cargo config is the only thing that worked, Build Scripts - The Cargo Book I guess doesn't work because there's no build script? (what is generating the link.exe command then?)

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The code that prints this message is here:

It wants you to have pkg-config installed, and pkg-config expects you to have glib-2.0 library installed AND have a glib-2.0.pc file in a directory where pkg-config is looking for it. On Windows I don't even know where that directory would be. It's a unix-centric tool looking for a unix-centric library.

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I actually got this working and then hit a number of other bugs.

For anyone else in this unusual situation, you need:

MSVC toolchain (installed with rustup-init if you didn't have it)
MSYS2
gvsbuild from GitHub - wingtk/gvsbuild: GTK stack for Windows
In MSYS2, you need to install mingw-w64-x86_64-pkgconf and mingw-w64-x86_64-glib2 (and whatever other libraries pkgconf is using - you're now outside of the MSVC world, use pacman -Fy filename.pc to find the packages

I would say the documentation at Windows - GUI development with Rust and GTK 4 is not quite complete, unless this call out to pkgconfig is just something the particular project I am trying to compile is doing.

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