gtksourceview-3.24.11

Introduction to GtkSourceView

The GtkSourceView package contains libraries used for extending the GTK+ text functions to include syntax highlighting.

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Package Information

GtkSourceView Dependencies

Required

GTK+-3.24.43

Recommended

Optional

Vala-0.56.17, Valgrind-3.24.0, GTK-Doc-1.34.0, itstool-2.0.7, fop-2.9 (or dblatex), and Glade

Installation of GtkSourceView

First, fix building this package with gcc-14:

sed -i 's/g_object_ref (buffer)/g_object_ref (GTK_SOURCE_BUFFER (buffer))/' gtksourceview/gtksourceview.c

Install GtkSourceView by running the following commands:

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

To test the results, issue make check. The tests need to be run in a graphical environment.

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 Programs: None
Installed Library: libgtksourceview-3.0.so
Installed Directories: /usr/{include,share,share/gtk-doc/html}/gtksourceview-3.0

Short Descriptions

libgtksourceview-3.0.so

contains function extensions for the GtkTextView widget