Gjs is a set of Javascript bindings for GNOME.
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Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/gjs/1.84/gjs-1.84.2.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 5083ed4dc52910eebbbfb17198d8ef8e
Download size: 772 KB
Estimated disk space required: 299 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (with tests; with parallelism=4)
Cairo-1.18.4, dbus-1.16.2, GLib-2.84.3 (with GObject Introspection), and SpiderMonkey from Firefox-128.11.0
Valgrind-3.25.1 (for tests), DTrace, LCOV, sysprof, and Systemtap
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
--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,
preventing it from downloading any optional dependencies which are
not installed on the system.
-D profiler=disabled: prevents building
the profiler backend even if sysprof is installed.