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<part id="tracker-overview">
  <title>Overview</title>
  <partintro>
    <para>
      The libmediaart library is the foundation for media art caching,
      extraction and lookup for applications on the desktop.
    </para>
  </partintro>

  <chapter id="tracker-overview-compiling">
    <title>Compiling applications</title>

    <para>
      To compile applications using libtracker-miner, you
      need to tell the compiler where to find the proper header files
      and libraries. This is done with the
      <application>pkg-config</application> utility.
    </para>

    <para>
      The following interactive shell session demonstrates how
      <application>pkg-config</application> is used (the actual output on
      your system may be different):
<programlisting>
$ pkg-config --cflags libmediaart-0.2

$ pkg-config --libs libmediaart-0.2

</programlisting>
    </para>
    <para>
      The simplest way to compile a program is to use the "backticks"
      feature of the shell. If you enclose a command in backticks
      (<emphasis>not single quotes</emphasis>), then its output will be
      substituted into the command line before execution:
<programlisting>
 $ cc `pkg-config --cflags --libs libmediaart-0.2` hello.c -o hello
</programlisting>
    </para>

  </chapter>
</part>
