Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 2012-01-16

Chapter 16. Networking Libraries

libsoup-2.30.2

Introduction to libsoup

The libsoup package contains an HTTP library implementation in C. This is useful for accessing HTTP servers in a completely asynchronous mode.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-6.5 platform.

Package Information

libsoup Dependencies

Required

GLib-2.30.1 and libxml2-2.7.8

Recommended

GnuTLS-3.0.7, libgnome-keyring-2.30.1, libproxy-0.2.3, and SQLite-3.7.8 (The latter three are required if building GNOME)

Optional

GConf-2.28.1, GTK-Doc-1.18, Apache-2.2.21 (required to run the test suite), and PHP-5.3.8 compiled with XMLRPC-EPI support (only used for the XMLRPC regression tests)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libsoup

Installation of libsoup

Install libsoup by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

--without-gnome: Use this parameter if you will NOT be installing GNOME.

--disable-ssl: Use this parameter if you wish to disable SSL/TLS support.

Contents

Installed Programs: None
Installed Libraries: libsoup-2.4.{so,a} and libsoup-gnome-2.4.{so,a}
Installed Directories: /usr/{include/{libsoup-2.4/libsoup,libsoup-gnome-2.4/libsoup}, share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup-2.4}

Short Descriptions

libsoup-2.4.{so,a}

provides functions for asynchronous HTTP connections.

libsoup-gnome-2.4.{so,a}

provides GNOME specific features.

Last updated on 2010-10-17 17:55:40 +0000