Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 2013-05-17

Chapter 17. Networking Libraries

librest-0.7.90

Introduction to librest

librest was designed to make it easier to access web services that claim to be "RESTful". It includes convenience wrappers for libsoup and libxml to ease remote use of the RESTful API.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.2 platform.

Package Information

librest Dependencies

Required

Certificate Authority Certificates and libsoup-2.40.3

Recommended

gobject-introspection-1.34.2

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.18

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

Installation of librest

Install librest by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --with-ca-certificates=/etc/ssl/ca-bundle.crt &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Command Explanations

--with-ca-certificates=/etc/ssl/ca-bundle.crt: The configure script needs to be pointed to the certificates.

Contents

Installed Programs: None
Installed Libraries: librest-0.7.so and librest-extras-0.7.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/rest-0.7 and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/rest-0.7

Short Descriptions

librest-0.7.so

contains the RESTful Web API Query functions.

librest-extras-0.7.so

contains extra RESTful Web API Query functions.

Last updated on 2013-01-25 16:32:25 +0000