Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd edition) - Version 7.6-systemd

Chapter 42. Multimedia Libraries and Drivers

Grilo-0.2.11

Introduction to Grilo

Grilo is a framework focused on making media discovery and browsing easy for applications and application developers.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.6 systemd platform.

Package Information

Grilo Dependencies

Required

GLib-2.40.0 and libxml2-2.9.1

Recommended

gobject-introspection-1.40.0, Grilo-Plugins-0.2.13 (runtime), GTK+-3.12.2, libsoup-2.46.0, totem-pl-parser-3.10.2, and Vala-0.24.0

Optional

Avahi-0.6.31, DocBook-utils-0.6.14, and liboauth-1.0.3

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/grilo

Installation of Grilo

Install Grilo by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=/usr     \
            --libdir=/usr/lib \
            --disable-static &&
make

This package does not come with a testsuite.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Contents

Installed Programs: grilo-simple-playlist, grilo-test-ui-0.2, and grl-inspect-0.2
Installed Libraries: libgrilo-0.2.so, libgrlnet-0.2.so and libgrlpls-0.2.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/grilo-0.2

Short Descriptions

grilo-test-ui-0.2

is a simple playground application that you can use to test the framework and its plugins.

grl-inspect-0.2

is a tool that prints out information on available Grilo sources.

libgrilo.so

provides the Grilo framework.

libgrlnet.so

provides Grilo networking helpers for plug-ins.

libgrlpls.so

provides playlist handling functions.

Last updated on 2014-08-25 18:22:00 -0700