diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 08686d5fe83a371470e584a4a456577cb18f42e4..ef5795b893298007b077bbed841c5fe7129bfa27 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ OCV_OPTION(ENABLE_BUILD_HARDENING     "Enable hardening of the resulting binarie
 OCV_OPTION(ENABLE_LTO                 "Enable Link Time Optimization" OFF IF CV_GCC OR MSVC)
 OCV_OPTION(ENABLE_THIN_LTO            "Enable Thin LTO" OFF IF CV_CLANG)
 OCV_OPTION(GENERATE_ABI_DESCRIPTOR    "Generate XML file for abi_compliance_checker tool" OFF IF UNIX)
-OCV_OPTION(OPENCV_GENERATE_PKGCONFIG  "Generate .pc file for pkg-config build tool (deprecated)" ON IF (UNIX AND NOT MSVC AND NOT IOS AND NOT ANDROID) )
+OCV_OPTION(OPENCV_GENERATE_PKGCONFIG  "Generate .pc file for pkg-config build tool (deprecated)" OFF)
 OCV_OPTION(CV_ENABLE_INTRINSICS       "Use intrinsic-based optimized code" ON )
 OCV_OPTION(CV_DISABLE_OPTIMIZATION    "Disable explicit optimized code (dispatched code/intrinsics/loop unrolling/etc)" OFF )
 OCV_OPTION(CV_TRACE                   "Enable OpenCV code trace" ON)
@@ -857,9 +857,7 @@ ocv_cmake_hook(PRE_FINALIZE)
 include(cmake/OpenCVGenHeaders.cmake)
 
 # Generate opencv.pc for pkg-config command
-if(NOT OPENCV_SKIP_PKGCONFIG_GENERATION
-    AND OPENCV_GENERATE_PKGCONFIG
-    AND NOT CMAKE_GENERATOR MATCHES "Xcode")
+if(OPENCV_GENERATE_PKGCONFIG)
   include(cmake/OpenCVGenPkgconfig.cmake)
 endif()