libsoup-2.2.100

Introduction to libsoup

The libsoup package contains an HTTP library implementation in C. This is useful for accessing HTTP servers in a completely asynchronous mode.

Package Information

libsoup Dependencies

Required

GLib-2.12.12 and libxml2-2.6.31

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.8, Apache-2.2.8 (required to run the test suite), PHP-5.2.3 compiled with XMLRPC-EPI support (only used for the XMLRPC regression tests), and GnuTLS-1.6.3

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libsoup

Installation of libsoup

Install libsoup by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

To test the results, issue make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild the API documentation.

Contents

Installed Programs: None
Installed Library: libsoup-2.2.{so,a}
Installed Directories: /usr/include/libsoup-2.2 and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup

Short Descriptions

libsoup-2.2.{so,a}

provides functions for asynchronous HTTP connections.

Last updated on 2007-08-16 17:34:29 -0500