Gjs is a set of Javascript bindings for GNOME.
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Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/gjs/1.90/gjs-1.90.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 8462afc318658636c031f36363f1b05f
Download size: 800 KB
Estimated disk space required: 329 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (with tests; with parallelism=4)
Cairo-1.18.4, dbus-1.16.2, GLib-2.90.0 (with GObject Introspection), and SpiderMonkey from Firefox-140.16.0
GTK-3.24.52, GTK-4.24.0, and Valgrind-3.27.1
Install Gjs by running the following commands:
mkdir gjs-build &&
cd gjs-build &&
meson setup --prefix=/usr \
--buildtype=release \
--wrap-mode=nofallback \
.. &&
ninja
To test the results, ensure both GTK-3.24.52 and GTK-4.24.0 are installed and issue: ninja test in a graphical session. Three tests, gjs:Warnings, gjs:Gtk4Warnings, and gjs:CommandLine, have subtests that fail.
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.
--wrap-mode=nofallback:
This switch prevents meson from using subproject
fallbacks for any dependency declarations in the build files,
preventing it from downloading any optional dependencies which are
not installed on the system.
-D profiler=disabled: This switch
prevents building the profiler backend even if sysprof is
installed.