On Thu Dec 14 06:30:12 2017, marka wrote:
> On Wed Dec 13 19:54:54 2017, ondrej wrote:
> > Or we can use pkg-config like it's 2017...
> >
> > $ pkg-config --libs zlib
> > -lz
> > $ pkg-config --cflags zlib
> > $
> 
> Which doesn't exist in the MacOS.
> 
> Now if you install macports (and presumably home-brew) it does but
> that doesn't give you the native instance.

So doesn't libjson nor libxml nor openssl >= 1.0 (it's either openssl 0.9.8 or libressl on High Sierra).  And pkg-config is very lightweight in terms of dependencies - only libc is really required as it uses internal glib on Mac OS X.