The Gcr package contains libraries used for displaying certificates and accessing key stores. It also provides the viewer for crypto files on the GNOME Desktop.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 11.3 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/gcr/4.0/gcr-4.0.0.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/gcr/4.0/gcr-4.0.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 836cd6d1cf57b2e0e9df40f6980fdb99
Download size: 700 KB
Estimated disk space required: 25 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (with tests; both using parallelism=4)
GLib-2.74.5, libgcrypt-1.10.1, and p11-kit-0.24.1
GnuPG-2.4.0, gobject-introspection-1.74.0, GTK-4.8.3, libsecret-0.20.5, libxslt-1.1.37, and Vala-0.56.4
Gi-DocGen-2023.1 and Valgrind-3.20.0
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gcr
![[Note]](../images/note.png)
Both gcr-3 and gcr-4 are coinstallable. This version of the package is used to support GTK-4 applications, such as gnome-shell-43.3.
Install Gcr by running the following commands:
mkdir build && cd build && meson --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release -Dgtk_doc=false .. && ninja
If you have Gi-DocGen-2023.1 installed and wish to build the API documentation for this package, issue:
sed -e "/install_dir/s@,\$@ / 'gcr-4.0.0'&@" \
-e "/fatal-warnings/d" \
-i ../docs/*/meson.build &&
meson configure -Dgtk_doc=true &&
ninja
To test the results, issue: ninja test. The tests must be run from an X Terminal or similar.
Now, as the root user:
ninja install
--buildtype=release:
Specify a buildtype suitable for stable releases of the package, as
the default may produce unoptimized binaries.
-Dgtk=false: Use this switch if you
haven't installed GTK-4.8.3. Note that gcr-viewer will not be installed if this is
passed to meson.
-Dgtk_doc=true: Allow building this
package without Gi-DocGen-2023.1 installed. If you have
Gi-DocGen-2023.1 installed and you
wish to rebuild and install the API documentation, a meson configure command will
reset this option.