The libadwaita package provides additional GTK4 UI widgets for use in developing user interfaces. It is used primarily for GNOME applications.
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://download.gnome.org/sources/libadwaita/1.2/libadwaita-1.2.1.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/libadwaita/1.2/libadwaita-1.2.1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 363aba5e19167b5fa641d40e380981ce
Download size: 1.9 MB
Estimated disk space required: 39 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (with parallelism=4; with tests)
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libadwaita
Install libadwaita by running the following commands:
mkdir build && cd build && meson setup --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release .. && ninja
To test the results, issue: ninja test. The tests must be run from 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.
-Dgtk_doc=true
: Use this option if you
have Gi-DocGen-2023.1 installed and wish to
install the documentation. If this option is used, run mv
/usr/share/doc/libadwaita-{1,1.2.1} as the
root
user to fix the name of the
directory for the documentation after this package is installed.