Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 8.1

Chapter 33. GNOME Libraries and Utilities

libpeas-1.20.0

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-8.1 platform.

Package Information

libpeas Dependencies

Required

gobject-introspection-1.52.1 and GTK+-3.22.18

Recommended

PyGObject-3.24.1 (Python 2 and Python 3 modules)

Optional

GDB-8.0, GTK-Doc-1.26, Valgrind-3.13.0, Glade, Seed, 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. 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 2017-08-28 15:14:37 -0700