Gjs is a set of Javascript bindings for GNOME.
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Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/gjs/1.78/gjs-1.78.3.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 7be0177c6cf2fe5b523b496da90370ae
Download size: 640 KB
Estimated disk space required: 374 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (with tests; with parallelism=4)
Cairo-1.18.0, dbus-1.14.10, gobject-introspection-1.78.1, and SpiderMonkey from Firefox-115.6.0
Valgrind-3.22.0 (for tests), DTrace, LCOV, sysprof, and Systemtap
Install Gjs by running the following commands:
mkdir gjs-build &&
cd gjs-build &&
meson setup --prefix=/usr \
--buildtype=release \
--wrap-mode=nofallback \
.. &&
ninja
To test the results, issue: ninja test in 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.
--wrap-mode=nofallback: This switch prevents meson from using subproject fallbacks for any dependency declarations in the build files, stopping it downloading any optional dependency which is not installed on the system.
-Dprofiler=disabled: prevents building the profiler backend even if sysprof is installed.