Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd Edition) - Version 10.1

Chapter 33. GNOME Libraries and Desktop

libpeas-1.28.0

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-10.1 platform.

Package Information

libpeas Dependencies

Required

gobject-introspection-1.66.1 and GTK+-3.24.25

Recommended

libxml2-2.9.10 and PyGObject-3.38.0

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.33.2, 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

First, adapt the tests to changes in meson-0.55: 

sed -i 's/test_exe,/test_exe, depends: [libintrospection_gir],/' tests/libpeas/meson.build

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 2021-02-24 18:50:56 -0800