Build Conflict with Homebrew on Linux

[Beanow]

Mirrored from https://tauri.app/v1/guides/faq/#build-conflict-with-homebrew-on-linux

Homebrew on Linux includes its own pkg-config (a utility to find libraries on the system). This can cause conflicts when installing the same pkg-config package for Tauri (usually installed through the package manager like apt). When you try to build a Tauri app it will try to invoke pkg-config and will end up invoking the one from Homebrew. If Homebrew wasn't used to install Tauri's dependencies, this can cause errors.

Errors will usually contain messages along the lines of error: failed to run custom build command for X - Package Y was not found in the pkg-config search path.. Note that you may see similar errors if the required dependencies are not installed at all.

There are two solutions to this issue:

1. Uninstall Homebrew
2. Set the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable to point to the correct pkg-config before building a Tauri app

[jedfonner]

How does one figure out the correct pkg-config ?