source: archive/libmusicbrainz3.xml@ f82ac3f

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  <!ENTITY libmusicbrainz3-time          "less than 0.1 SBU">
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  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>libmusicbrainz-&libmusicbrainz3-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="libmusicbrainz3">
    <primary sortas="a-libmusicbrainz3">libmusicbrainz3</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to libmusicbrainz</title>

    <para>
      The <application>libmusicbrainz</application> package contains a
      library which allows you to access the data held on the MusicBrainz server.
      This is useful for adding MusicBrainz lookup capabilities to other
      applications.
    </para>

    <para>
      <application>libmusicbrainz</application> version 3 is not backward
      compatible with version 2.
    </para>

    &lfs72_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&libmusicbrainz3-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&libmusicbrainz3-download-ftp;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &libmusicbrainz3-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &libmusicbrainz3-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated disk space required: &libmusicbrainz3-buildsize;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated build time: &libmusicbrainz3-time;
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">libmusicbrainz Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required">
      <xref linkend="cmake"/>,
      <xref linkend="libdiscid"/> and
      <xref linkend="neon"/></para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/cppunit/">
      cppunit</ulink> (Required to run the test suite)
    </para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
      <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/libmusicbrainz3"/>
    </para>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of libmusicbrainz</title>

    <para>
      Install <application>libmusicbrainz</application> by running the following
      commands:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr . &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>.
    </para>

    <para>
      Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Library</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directory</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>
          None
        </seg>
        <seg>
          libmusicbrainz3.so
        </seg>
        <seg>
          /usr/include/musicbrainz3
        </seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="libmusicbrainz3-lib">
        <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libmusicbrainz3.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            contains API functions to access the MusicBrainz database, both
            for looking up data and also for submitting new data.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="libmusicbrainz3 libmusicbrainz3-lib">
            <primary sortas="c-libmusicbrainz3">libmusicbrainz3.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

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