Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd edition) - Version 8.4

Chapter 33.  GNOME Libraries and Desktop

Grilo-0.3.7

Introduction to Grilo

Grilo is a framework focused on making media discovery and browsing easy for applications and application developers.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-8.4 platform.

Package Information

Grilo Dependencies

Required

GLib-2.58.3 and libxml2-2.9.9

Recommended

gobject-introspection-1.58.3, GTK+-3.24.5, libsoup-2.64.2, totem-pl-parser-3.26.2, and Vala-0.42.5

Optional

Avahi-0.7, DocBook-utils-0.6.14, liboauth-1.0.3, and GTK-Doc-1.29

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

Installation of Grilo

Install Grilo by running the following commands: 

mkdir build &&
cd build    &&
meson --prefix=/usr \
      --libexecdir=/usr/lib .. &&
ninja

This package does not come with a testsuite.

Now, as the root user: 

ninja install

Command Explanations

-Denable-gtk-doc=true: This option enables generating documentation. If you have GTK-Doc-1.29 installed and wish to generate documentation, add this option.

Contents

Installed Programs: grilo-test-ui-0.3, grl-inspect-0.3 and grl-launch-0.3
Installed Libraries: libgrilo-0.3.so, libgrlnet-0.3.so and libgrlpls-0.3.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/grilo-0.3

Short Descriptions

grilo-test-ui-0.3

is a simple playground application that you can use to test the framework and its plugins.

grl-inspect-0.3

is a tool that prints out information on available Grilo sources.

grl-launch-0.3

is a tool to run Grilo operations from command line.

libgrilo.so

provides the Grilo framework.

libgrlnet.so

provides Grilo networking helpers for plug-ins.

libgrlpls.so

provides playlist handling functions.

Last updated on 2019-02-20 23:16:01 -0800