Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 2012-02-12

Chapter 10. Graphics and Font Libraries

clutter-1.8.2

Introduction to clutter

The clutter package is an open source software library for creating fast, visually rich and animated graphical user interfaces.

[Note]

Note

Anything built with this toolkit needs accelerated 3D support from the graphics driver at runtime. If you use GNOME-3 and it selects the fallback window manager (metacity) you should treat this package as a build dependency and expect unsatisfactory runtime performance from other clutter packages, particularly totem.

This package is known to build using an LFS 7.0 platform but has not been tested.

Package Information

clutter Dependencies

Required

atk-2.2.0, cairo-1.10.2, cogl-1.8.2, gdk-pixbuf-2.24.0, JSON-GLib-0.14.2, MesaLib-7.11.2, and Pango-1.29.4

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.18

Optional (to build the application developers manual)

DocBook-utils-0.6.14, JadeTeX-3.13, xmlto-0.0.23, and either Links-2.4, Lynx-2.8.7rel.2, or w3m-0.5.2

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

Installation of clutter

Install clutter by running the following commands: 

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

To test the results, issue: make check (you must be in an xterm or similar to do this, because it launches some windows).

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-manual: Use this parameter if DocBook-utils, xmlto, JadeTeX, and either Links, Lynx, or W3m are installed and you wish to build the application developers manual.

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

Contents

Installed Programs: None
Installed Library: libclutter-glx-1.0.so
Installed Directories: /usr/{include/clutter-1.0/{cally,clutter/{glx,x11}}, share/gtk-doc/html/{cally,clutter}}

Short Descriptions

libclutter-glx-1.0.so

contains the clutter API functions.

Last updated on 2012-02-07 17:11:39 +0000