The libsoup is a HTTP client/server library for GNOME. It uses GObject and the GLib main loop to integrate with GNOME applications and it also has an asynchronous API for use in threaded applications.
Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if LFS or dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the books.
Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/libsoup/2.74/libsoup-2.74.3.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 8f657fd301a213629204b3320c35d75a
Download size: 1.4 MB
Estimated disk space required: 17 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU (Using parallelism=4; with tests)
glib-networking-2.80.0, libpsl-0.21.5, libxml2-2.13.4, and SQLite-3.46.1
GLib-2.82.1 (with GObject Introspection) and Vala-0.56.17
Apache-2.4.62 (required to run the test suite), Brotli-1.1.0, cURL-8.10.1 (required to run the test suite), MIT Kerberos V5-1.21.3 (required to run the test suite), GTK-Doc-1.34.0, PHP-8.3.12 compiled with XMLRPC-EPI support (only used for the XMLRPC regression tests), Samba-4.21.0 (ntlm_auth is required to run the test suite), and sysprof
Install libsoup by running the following commands:
mkdir build && cd build && meson setup --prefix=/usr \ --buildtype=release \ -D vapi=enabled \ -D gssapi=disabled \ -D sysprof=disabled \ .. && ninja
To test the results, issue: ninja
test. One test named ssl-test
is known to fail.
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.
-D vapi=disabled
: Use this if you have
not installed Vala, e.g. because
you are not building GNOME.
-D doc=enabled
: Use this option if you
want to build the documentation. Note that you must have GTK-Doc-1.34.0 installed.
-D gssapi=disabled
: libsoup
defaults to building with GSSAPI support, which requires Kerberos
(as does the test suite). If you are building GNOME or have
kerberos installed, remove this option.
-D sysprof=disabled
:
libsoup will automatically download a git version of sysprof if
git is available or use the installed version if it is present on
the system. If you need profiling, remove this option.