libgedit-gtksourceview-299.2.1

Introduction to libgedit-gtksourceview

The libgedit-gtksourceview package provides a library that extends GtkTextView. This library adds support for syntax highlighting, undo/redo, file loading and saving, search and replace, a completion system, printing, displaying line numbers, and other features typical of a source code editor.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 12.2 platform.

Package Information

libgedit-gtksourceview Dependencies

Required

GTK+-3.24.43 and libxml2-2.13.3

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.34.0

Installation of libgedit-gtksourceview

Install libgedit-gtksourceview by running the following commands:

mkdir build-libgedit &&
cd    build-libgedit &&

meson setup --prefix=/usr       \
            --buildtype=release \
            -D gtk_doc=false    \
            .. &&
ninja

To test the results, issue: ninja test.

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.

-D gtk_doc=false: Disables building the API documentation. Remove if you have GTK-Doc-1.34.0 installed and wish to build the API documentation.

Contents

Installed Programs: None
Installed Libraries: libgedit-gtksourceview-300.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/libgedit-gtksourceview-300 and /usr/share/libgedit-gtksourceview-300

Short Descriptions

libgedit-gtksourceview-300.so

contains convenience functions for text editing.