Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version r12.2-543

Chapter 9. General Libraries

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Introduction to libgudev

The libgudev package contains GObject bindings for libudev.

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Package Information

Required

GLib-2.82.2 (GObject Introspection required for GNOME)

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.34.0 and umockdev-0.18.4 (for testing)

Installation of libgudev

Install libgudev by running the following commands: 

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

meson setup --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release .. &&
ninja

To test the results, issue: ninja test.

Now, as the root user: 

ninja install

Command Explanations

--buildtype=release: Specify a buildtype suitable for stable releases of the package, as the default may produce unoptimized binaries.

-D gtk_doc=true: Use this option if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to build and install the API documentation.

Contents

Installed Program: None
Installed Libraries: libgudev-1.0.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/gudev-1.0 and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gudev

Short Descriptions

libgudev-1.0.so

is a GObject-based wrapper library for libudev