The libadwaita package provides additional GTK4 UI widgets for use in developing user interfaces. It is used primarily for GNOME applications.
Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the book.
Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/libadwaita/1.1/libadwaita-1.1.3.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/libadwaita/1.1/libadwaita-1.1.3.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: b5c3d0dd2af00d067e9a5123254d954a
Download size: 2.6 MB
Estimated disk space required: 34 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.4 SBU (with tests)
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libadwaita
Install libadwaita by running the following commands:
mkdir build && cd build && meson --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release .. && ninja
To test the results, issue: ninja test. The tests must be run from a graphical session.
Now, as the root
user:
ninja install
--buildtype=release
:
Specify a buildtype suitable for stable releases of the package, as
the default may produce unoptimized binaries.
-Dgtk_doc=true
: Use this option if you
have GTK-Doc-1.33.2 installed and wish to install
the documentation.