The libsoup package contains an HTTP library implementation in C. This is useful for accessing HTTP servers in a completely asynchronous mode.
Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libsoup/2.2/libsoup-2.2.96.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libsoup/2.2/libsoup-2.2.96.tar.bz2
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Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU
GLib-2.10.3 and libxml2-2.6.26
GTK-Doc-1.6, Apache-2.2.2 (required to run the test suite), PHP-5.1.4 compiled with XMLRPC-EPI support (only used for the XMLRPC regression tests), and GnuTLS (which needs libgpg-error then libgcrypt)
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libsoup
Install libsoup by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr && make
To test the results, issue make check.
Now, as the root user:
make install
--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild the API documentation.
Last updated on 2007-01-15 18:08:14 -0600