Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version 9.1

Chapter 10. Graphics and Font Libraries

gegl-0.4.22

Introduction to gegl

This package provides the GEneric Graphics Library, which is a graph based image processing format.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-9.1 platform.

Package Information

gegl Dependencies

Required

babl-0.1.74 and JSON-GLib-1.4.4

Recommended

gobject-introspection-1.62.0, Pygments-2.5.2, and PyGObject-3.34.0

Optional

asciidoc-8.6.9, Cairo-1.17.2+f93fc72c03e, Exiv2-0.27.2, FFmpeg-4.2.2, gdk-pixbuf-2.40.0, gexiv2-0.12.0, Graphviz-2.42.3, GTK-Doc-1.32, JasPer-2.0.14, Little CMS-2.9, libjpeg-turbo-2.0.4 libpng-1.6.37, librsvg-2.46.4, LibTIFF-4.1.0, libwebp-1.1.0, Pango-1.44.7, Ruby-2.7.0, SDL2-2.0.10, v4l-utils-1.18.0, Vala-0.46.6, lensfun, libopenraw, libspiro, libumfpack, LuaJIT, MRG, and OpenEXR

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

Installation of gegl

Install gegl by running the following commands: 

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

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

To test the results, issue: ninja test.

Now, as the root user: 

ninja install

Command Explanations

-Ddocs=true: Build and install documentation (requires GTK-Doc-1.32,).

Contents

Installed Programs: gegl and gegl-imgcmp
Installed Libraries: libgegl-0.4.so, libgegl-npd-0.4.so, libgegl-sc-0.4.so, and modules in /usr/lib/gegl-0.4
Installed Directories: /usr/lib/gegl-0.4 and /usr/include/gegl-0.4

Short Descriptions

gegl

is a commandline tool for working with the XML data model.

gegl-imgcmp

is a simple image difference detection tool for use in regression testing.

libgegl-0.4.so

provides infrastructure to do demand based cached non destructive image editing on larger than RAM buffers.

libgegl-npd-0.4.so

is the GEGL N-point image deformation library.

libgegl-sc-0.4.so

is the GEGL Seamless Cloning library.

Last updated on 2020-02-21 10:47:11 -0800