Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd Edition) - Version 11.0

Chapter 33. GNOME Libraries and Desktop

libpeas-1.30.0

Introduction to libpeas

libpeas is a GObject based plugins engine, and is targeted at giving every application the chance to assume its own extensibility.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-11.0 platform.

Package Information

libpeas Dependencies

Required

gobject-introspection-1.68.0 and GTK+-3.24.30

Recommended

libxml2-2.9.12 and PyGObject-3.40.1

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.33.2, Glade, embed, LGI (for LUA bindings, built with LUA-5.1), with either luajit or LUA-5.1

User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libpeas

Installation of libpeas

Install libpeas by running the following commands: 

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

meson --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release .. &&
ninja

To test the results, issue: ninja test. An active graphical session with bus address is necessary to run the tests.

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.

-Dvapi=true: Add this switch if you wish to generate vapi (vala) data.

-Ddemos=false: Add this switch if you do not wish to build the demo programs.

-Dgtk_doc=true: Add this switch if wish to build the reference manual.

Contents

Installed Program: peas-demo
Installed Libraries: libpeas-1.0.so and libpeas-gtk-1.0.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/libpeas-1.0, /usr/lib/libpeas-1.0, /usr/lib/peas-demo and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libpeas

Short Descriptions

peas-demo

is the Peas demo program

libpeas-1.0.so

contains the libpeas API functions

libpeas-gtk-1.0.so

contains the libpeas GTK+ widgets

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