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

Chapter 50. PostScript

MuPDF-1.26.12

Introduction to MuPDF

MuPDF is a lightweight PDF and XPS viewer.

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Package Information

MuPDF Dependencies

Required

Xorg Libraries

Recommended

Freeglut-3.8.0, harfBuzz-12.3.2, libjpeg-turbo-3.1.3, OpenJPEG-2.5.4, and cURL-8.18.0

Optional

xdg-utils-1.2.1 (runtime), jbig2dec, and MuJS

Required (runtime)

a graphical environment

Installation of MuPDF

Install MuPDF by running the following commands: 

cat > user.make << EOF &&
USE_SYSTEM_FREETYPE := yes
USE_SYSTEM_HARFBUZZ := yes
USE_SYSTEM_JBIG2DEC := no
USE_SYSTEM_JPEGXR := no # not used without HAVE_JPEGXR
USE_SYSTEM_LCMS2 := no # lcms2mt is strongly preferred
USE_SYSTEM_LIBJPEG := yes
USE_SYSTEM_MUJS := no # build needs source anyway
USE_SYSTEM_OPENJPEG := yes
USE_SYSTEM_ZLIB := yes
USE_SYSTEM_GLUT := yes
USE_SYSTEM_CURL := yes
USE_SYSTEM_GUMBO := no
EOF

export XCFLAGS=-fPIC                      &&
make build=release shared=yes verbose=yes &&
unset XCFLAGS

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user: 

make prefix=/usr                         \
     shared=yes                          \
     docdir=/usr/share/doc/mupdf-1.26.12 \
     install                             &&

ln -sfv libmupdf.so.26.12 /usr/lib/libmupdf.so.26 &&
ln -sfv libmupdf.so.26   /usr/lib/libmupdf.so     &&
chmod 755 /usr/lib/libmupdf.so.26.12              &&

ln -sfv mupdf-x11 /usr/bin/mupdf

Command Explanations

ln -sfv mupdf-x11 /usr/bin/mupdf : This symbolic link chooses between mupdf-gl and mupdf-x11 when running mupdf.

Contents

Installed Program: mupdf (symlink), mupdf-gl, mupdf-x11, mupdf-x11-curl, muraster, and mutool
Installed Libraries: libmupdf.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/mupdf, /usr/share/doc/mupdf-1.26.12

Short Descriptions

mupdf

is a program for viewing PDF, XPS, EPUB, and CBZ documents, and various image formats such as PNG, JPEG, GIFF, and TIFF

mupdf-gl

same as mupdf, using an opengl renderer

mupdf-x11

same as mupdf, using an X Window renderer

muraster

is a program used to perform rasterization tasks with PDF documents

mutool

is a program to perform various operations on PDF files, such as merging and cleaning PDF documents

libmupdf.so

contains the mupdf API functions