Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version r12.4-1388

Chapter 9. General Libraries

Uchardet-0.0.8

Introduction to Uchardet

The Uchardet package contains an encoding detector library which takes a sequence of bytes in an unknown character encoding and attempts to determine the encoding of the text.

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Package Information

Uchardet Dependencies

Required

CMake-4.2.3

Installation of Uchardet

Install Uchardet by running the following commands: 

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr        \
      -D BUILD_STATIC=OFF                 \
      -D CMAKE_POLICY_VERSION_MINIMUM=3.5 \
      -W no-dev ..                        &&
make

To test the results, issue: make test.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Command Explanations

-D BUILD_STATIC=OFF: This switch disables building the static version of the library.

-D CMAKE_POLICY_VERSION_MINIMUM=3.5: This switch allows building this package with cmake-4.0 or newer.

Contents

Installed Programs: uchardet
Installed Libraries: libuchardet.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/uchardet

Short Descriptions

uchardet

detects what character set is used inside of a file

libuchardet.so

provides an API for detecting the encoding of text in a file