Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 7.7

Chapter 30. GNOME Libraries and Utilities

libpeas-1.13.0

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-7.7 platform.

Package Information

libpeas Dependencies

Required

gobject-introspection-1.42.0 and GTK+-3.14.8

Recommended

PyGObject-3.14.0 (Python 2 and Python 3 modules)

Optional

GDB-7.9, GTK-Doc-1.21, Valgrind-3.10.1, Glade, 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

Install libpeas by running the following commands: 

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

To test the results, issue: make check 2>&1 | tee ../libpeas-make-check.log. Check the results with egrep '(FAIL|PASS)' ../libpeas-make-check.log. An active graphical session with bus address is necessary to run the tests.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

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 2015-03-02 19:42:44 -0800