Gjs-1.78.4

Introduction to Gjs

Gjs is a set of Javascript bindings for GNOME.

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Note

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Package Information

Gjs Dependencies

Required

Cairo-1.18.0, dbus-1.14.10, GLib-2.80.0 (with GObject Introspection), and SpiderMonkey from Firefox-115.8.0

Recommended (required for GNOME)

Optional

Valgrind-3.22.0 (for tests), DTrace, LCOV, sysprof, and Systemtap

Installation of Gjs

Install Gjs by running the following commands:

mkdir gjs-build &&
cd    gjs-build &&

meson setup --prefix=/usr          \
            --buildtype=release    \
            --wrap-mode=nofallback \
            ..                     &&
ninja

To test the results, issue: ninja test in a graphical session.

Now, as the root user:

ninja install

Command Explanations

--buildtype=release: Specify a buildtype suitable for stable releases of the package, as the default may produce unoptimized binaries.

--wrap-mode=nofallback: This switch prevents meson from using subproject fallbacks for any dependency declarations in the build files, stopping it downloading any optional dependency which is not installed on the system.

-Dprofiler=disabled: prevents building the profiler backend even if sysprof is installed.

Contents

Installed Programs: gjs (symlink) and gjs-console
Installed Library: libgjs.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/gjs-1.0, /usr/lib/gjs, /usr/libexec/installed-tests/gjs, /usr/share/gjs-1.0, and /usr/share/installed-tests/gjs

Short Descriptions

gjs-console

contains a console to run JavaScript commands

libgjs.so

contains the GNOME JavaScript bindings