---
name: "mapnik-config"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "libmapnik-dev"
version: "3.1.0+ds-3+b1"
release: "Debian 12 (Bookworm)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/mapnik-config"
---

# mapnik-config(1)

return meta-information about Mapnik

## NAME

mapnik-config - return meta-information about Mapnik

## SYNOPSIS

**mapnik-config** \[ options \]

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **mapnik-config** command.

**mapnik-config** is a program that returns meta-information about the installed libmapnik.

## OPTIONS

This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (\`-'). A summary of options is included below.

- **--prefix, --prefix=***new\_prefix*

  Display Mapnik prefix or, alternatively, temporarily set the Mapnik prefix to *new\_prefix*.

- **--libs**

  Print library linking information.

- **--dep-libs**

  Print library linking information for Mapnik dependencies.

- **--ldflags**

  Print library paths (-L) information.

- **--cflags**

  Print pre-processor and compiler flags.

- **--fonts**

  Print default fonts directory.

- **--input-plugins**

  Print default input plugins directory.

- **--json**

  Print all config options as JSON objects.

- **-h, --help**

  Show summary of options.

- **-v, --version**

  Shows version information.

- **--svn-revision**

  Shows SVN revision information.

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by David Paleino \<dapal@debian.org\>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others), and is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or, at your option, any later version.