libpeas is a GObject based plugins engine, and is targeted at giving every application the chance to assume its own extensibility.
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This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 13.0 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/libpeas/1.36/libpeas-1.36.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: b3dd31a79c47af0cbf22f2d6bf52bc7d
Download size: 192 KB
Estimated disk space required: 10 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (with tests)
GLib-2.86.4 (with GObject Introspection) and GTK-3.24.51
Gi-DocGen-2026.1, Glade, embed, LGI (for LUA bindings, built with LUA-5.1), with either luajit-20260213 or LUA-5.1
Install libpeas by running the following commands:
mkdir build &&
cd build &&
meson setup --prefix=/usr \
--buildtype=release \
--wrap-mode=nofallback \
-D python3=false \
.. &&
ninja
If you have Gi-DocGen-2026.1 installed and wish to build the API documentation for this package, issue:
sed "/docs_dir =/s@\$@/ 'libpeas-1.36.0'@" \
-i ../docs/reference/meson.build &&
meson configure -D gtk_doc=true &&
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
--buildtype=release:
Specify a buildtype suitable for stable releases of the package, as
the default may produce unoptimized binaries.
--wrap-mode=nofallback:
This switch prevents meson from using subproject
fallbacks for any dependency declarations in the build files,
preventing it from downloading any optional dependencies which are
not installed on the system.
-D python3=false: This
switch disables the Python plugin loader because it is incompatible
with pygobject-3.52.x, and it will cause applications which load
Python plugins to hang indefinitely.
-D vapi=true: Add this switch if you
wish to generate vapi (vala) data.
-D demos=false: Add this switch if you
do not wish to build the demo programs.