#### Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd Edition) - Version r13.0-491

### Chapter 9. General Libraries

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# GLibmm-2.66.8

## Introduction to GLibmm

The GLibmm package is a set of C++ bindings for GLib.

### Note

Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if LFS or dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the books.

### Package Information

- Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/glibmm/2.66/glibmm-2.66.8.tar.xz

- Download MD5 sum: 4cdcd69c3af84e59dfd745a1b1cb9851

- Download size: 8.2 MB

- Estimated disk space required: 90 MB (with tests)

- Estimated build time: 0.4 SBU (Using parallelism=4; with tests)

### GLibmm Dependencies

#### Required

GLib-2.88.0 and libsigc++-2.12.1

#### Optional

Doxygen-1.17.0, glib-networking-2.80.1 (for tests), GnuTLS-3.8.13 (for tests), libxslt-1.1.45, and mm-common

## Installation of GLibmm

Install GLibmm by running the following commands:

    mkdir bld &&
    cd    bld &&

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

To test the results, issue: ninja test.

Now, as the `root` user:

    ninja install

## Contents

Installed Programs: None
Installed Libraries: libgiomm-2.4.so, libglibmm-2.4.so and libglibmm_generate_extra_defs-2.4.so
Installed Directories: /usr/lib/g{io,lib}mm-2.4 and /usr/include/g{io,lib}mm-2.4

### Short Descriptions

`libgiomm-2.4.so` | contains the GIO API classes
`libglibmm-2.4.so` | contains the GLib API classes

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