Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version r12.2-440

Chapter 9. General Libraries

GLibmm-2.66.7

Introduction to GLibmm

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

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Package Information

GLibmm Dependencies

Required

GLib-2.82.2 and libsigc++-2.12.1

Optional

Doxygen-1.12.0, glib-networking-2.80.0 (for tests), GnuTLS-3.8.7.1 (for tests), libxslt-1.1.42, 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