Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd edition) - Version 7.6-systemd

Chapter 31. GNOME Libraries and Utilities

librest-0.7.92

Introduction to librest

librest was designed to make it easier to access web services that claim to be "RESTful". It includes convenience wrappers for libsoup and libxml to ease remote use of the RESTful API.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.6 systemd platform.

Package Information

librest Dependencies

Required

Certificate Authority Certificates and libsoup-2.46.0

Recommended

gobject-introspection-1.40.0

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.20

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

Installation of librest

Install librest by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Contents

Installed Programs: None
Installed Libraries: librest-0.7.so and librest-extras-0.7.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/rest-0.7 and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/rest-0.7

Short Descriptions

librest-0.7.so

contains the RESTful Web API Query functions.

librest-extras-0.7.so

contains extra RESTful Web API Query functions.

Last updated on 2014-09-04 18:06:17 -0700