Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd Edition) - Version 11.1

Chapter 9. General Libraries

libportal-0.5

Introduction to libportal

The libportal package provides a library that contains GIO-style async APIs for most Flatpak portals.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-11.1 platform.

Package Information

libportal Dependencies

Required

gobject-introspection-1.70.0

Recommended

GTK+-3.24.31, GTK-4.6.1, and Qt-5.15.2

Optional

Vala-0.54.7 and gi-docgen

User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libportal

Installation of libportal

[Warning]

Warning

If a previous version of libportal is installed, move the headers out of the way so that later packages do not encounter conflicts: 

if [ -e /usr/include/libportal ]; then
    rm -rf /usr/include/libportal.old &&
    mv -vf /usr/include/libportal{,.old}
fi

Install libportal by running the following commands: 

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

meson --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release -Ddocs=false .. &&
ninja

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user: 

ninja install

Command Explanations

--buildtype=release: Specify a buildtype suitable for stable releases of the package, as the default may produce unoptimized binaries.

-Ddocs=false: Remove this parameter if gi-docgen is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Contents

Installed Programs: None
Installed Libraries: libportal.so, libportal-gtk3.so, libportal-gtk4.so, and libportal-qt5.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/libportal and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libportal

Short Descriptions

libportal.so

provides GIO-style async APIs for most Flatpak portals

libportal-gtk3.so

provides GTK+-3 specific functions for interacting with Flatpak portals.

libportal-gtk4.so

provides GTK-4 specific functions for interacting with Flatpak portals.

libportal-qt5.so

provides Qt5 specific functions for interacting with Flatpak portals.

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