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

Chapter 33. GNOME Libraries and Desktop

libpeas-1.24.1

Introduction to libpeas

libpeas is a GObject based plugins engine, and is targeted at giving every application the chance to assume its own extensibility.

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

Package Information

libpeas Dependencies

Required

gobject-introspection-1.62.0 and GTK+-3.24.13

Recommended

libxml2-2.9.10 and PyGObject-3.34.0

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.32, Glade, embed, LGI (for LUA bindings, built with LUA-5.1), with either luajit or LUA-5.1

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

Installation of libpeas

Install libpeas by running the following commands: 

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

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

To test the results, issue: ninja test. An active graphical session with bus address is necessary to run the tests.

Now, as the root user: 

ninja install

Command Explanations

-Dvapi=true: Add this switch if you wish to generate vapi (vala) data.

-Ddemos=false: Add this switch if you do not wish to build the demo programs.

-Dgtk-doc=true: Add this switch if wish to build the reference manual.

Contents

Installed Program: peas-demo
Installed Libraries: libpeas-1.0.so and libpeas-gtk-1.0.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/libpeas-1.0, /usr/lib/libpeas-1.0, /usr/lib/peas-demo and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libpeas

Short Descriptions

peas-demo

is the Peas demo program.

libpeas-1.0.so

contains the libpeas API functions.

libpeas-gtk-1.0.so

contains the libpeas GTK+ widgets.

Last updated on 2020-02-25 20:51:27 -0800