Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd Edition) - Version r12.0-816

Chapter 33. GNOME Libraries and Desktop

libgdata-0.18.1

Introduction to libgdata

The libgdata package is a GLib-based library for accessing online service APIs using the GData protocol, most notably, Google's services. It provides APIs to access the common Google services and has full asynchronous support.

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Note

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Package Information

libgdata Dependencies

Required

libsoup-2.74.3, gnome-online-accounts-3.48.0, GTK+-3.24.38, JSON-GLib-1.8.0, and Vala-0.56.14

Recommended

Gcr-3.41.1 and gobject-introspection-1.78.1

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.33.2 (for documentation), liboauth-1.0.3 (for OAuth v1 support), and uhttpmock-0.5.3 (required for tests)

Installation of libgdata

Install libgdata by running the following commands: 

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

meson setup --prefix=/usr              \
            --buildtype=release        \
            -Dgtk_doc=false            \
            -Dalways_build_tests=false \
            ..                         &&
ninja

If you wish to run the test suite, make sure uhttpmock-0.5.3 is installed and remove -Dalways_build_tests=false in the meson command line. To test the results, issue: ninja test. Note that the tests need network access.

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.

-Dgtk_doc=false: Remove this if you have GTK-Doc-1.33.2 installed and want to rebuild the documentation with it.

-Doauth1=enabled: Use this option if you wish to build in support for OAuth v1. Note that you must have liboauth-1.0.3 installed in order to enable this option.

Contents

Installed Programs: None
Installed Libraries: libgdata.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/libgdata and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gdata

Short Descriptions

libgdata.so

contains the libgdata API functions