The Pixman package contains a library that provides low-level pixel manipulation features such as image compositing and trapezoid rasterization.
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://www.cairographics.org/releases/pixman-0.42.2.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: a0f6ab8a1d8e0e2cd80e935525e2a864
Download size: 940 KB
Estimated disk space required: 30 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.5 SBU (with tests)
GTK+-2.24.33 and libpng-1.6.39 (for tests and demos)
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/pixman
Install Pixman by running the following commands:
mkdir build && cd build && meson --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release && ninja
To test the results, issue: ninja test.
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.