Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version 11.3

Chapter 9. General Libraries

Uchardet-0.0.8

Introduction to Uchardet

The Uchardet package contains an encoding detectory library which takes a sequence of bytes in an unknown character encoding and attempts to determine the encoding of the text.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 11.3 platform.

Package Information

Uchardet Dependencies

Required

CMake-3.25.2

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

Installation of Uchardet

Install Uchardet by running the following commands: 

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
      -DBUILD_STATIC=OFF          \
      -Wno-dev ..                 &&
make

To test the results, issue: make test.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Command Explanations

-DBUILD_STATIC=OFF: This switch disables building the static version of the library.

Contents

Installed Programs: uchardet
Installed Libraries: libuchardet.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/uchardet

Short Descriptions

uchardet

detects what character set is used inside of a file

libuchardet.so

provides an API for detecting the encoding of text in a file