The libshumate package contains a GTK-4 widget to display maps.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 12.4 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/libshumate/1.4/libshumate-1.4.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 0140aaa4891ac215d0f40b4ad4cd880d
Download size: 5.6 MB
Estimated disk space required: 16 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU
GTK-4.18.6, libsoup-3.6.5, and Protobuf-c-1.5.2
GLib-2.84.4 (with GObject Introspection) (required for gnome-maps)
Install libshumate by running the following commands:
mkdir build && cd build && meson setup --prefix=/usr \ --buildtype=release \ --wrap-mode=nodownload \ -D gtk_doc=false \ .. && ninja
If you have Gi-DocGen-2025.4 installed and wish to build the API documentation for this package, issue:
sed -e 's/lib_version/version/' \ -i ../docs/meson.build && meson configure -D gtk_doc=true && 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.
--wrap-mode=nodownload
:
This switch prevents meson from downloading any
optional dependency which is not installed on the system.