Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version r11.2-1152

Chapter 25. Graphical Environment Libraries

libcairomm-1.0 (cairomm-1.14.0)

Introduction to libcairomm-1.0

The libcairomm-1.0 package provides a C++ interface to Cairo.

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Note

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.

Package Information

libcairomm-1.0 Dependencies

Required

Cairo-1.17.6 and libsigc++-2.12.0

Recommended

Boost-1.81.0 (for tests)

Optional

Doxygen-1.9.6

User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/cairomm-1.0

Installation of libcairomm-1.0

Install Cairomm-1.0 by running the following commands: 

mkdir bld &&
cd    bld &&

meson --prefix=/usr       \
      --buildtype=release \
      -Dbuild-tests=true  \
      -Dboost-shared=true \
      ..                  &&
ninja

To run the test suite, run: ninja test.

Now, as the root user: 

ninja install

Command Explanations

-Dbuild-tests=true: This switch is for building the unit tests. Remove if you have not installed Boost-1.81.0.

-Dboost-shared=true: This switch has the package use the shared version of boost libraries. It is required if you have not installed the boost static libraries, and you have passed -Dbuild-tests=true.

-Dbuild-documentation=true: This switch builds the html documentation if doxygen is installed.

Contents

Installed Programs: None
Installed Library: libcairomm-1.0.so
Installed Directories: /usr/{lib,include}/cairomm-1.0 and /usr/share/{devhelp/books,doc}/cairomm-1.0 (optional)

Short Descriptions

libcairomm-1.0.so

contains the Cairo API classes