source: networking/netlibs/libsoup3.xml@ 941e3b09

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   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY libsoup3-download-http
           "&gnome-download-http;/libsoup/&libsoup3-minor;/libsoup-&libsoup3-version;.tar.xz">
  <!ENTITY libsoup3-download-ftp
           "&gnome-download-ftp;/libsoup/&libsoup3-minor;/libsoup-&libsoup3-version;.tar.xz">
  <!ENTITY libsoup3-md5sum        "fdf023fdb560967d6d2d4386d179e473">
  <!ENTITY libsoup3-size          "1.5 MB">
  <!ENTITY libsoup3-buildsize     "19 MB (with tests)">
  <!ENTITY libsoup3-time          "0.2 SBU (Using parallelism=4; with tests)">
]>

<sect1 id="libsoup3" xreflabel="libsoup-&libsoup3-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="libsoup3.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>libsoup-&libsoup3-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="libsoup3">
    <primary sortas="a-libsoup3">libsoup3</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to libsoup3</title>

    <para>
      The <application>libsoup3</application> is a HTTP client/server library for
      <application>GNOME</application>. It uses GObject and the GLib main loop
      to integrate with <application>GNOME</application> applications and
      it also has an asynchronous API for use in threaded applications.
    </para>

    &lfs111_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&libsoup3-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&libsoup3-download-ftp;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &libsoup3-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &libsoup3-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated disk space required: &libsoup3-buildsize;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated build time: &libsoup3-time;
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
<!--
    <warning>
      <para>
        You may have noticed newer libsoup releases versioned 3.x.y is
        available. However, currently some downstream packages support
        libsoup-3.x, while the others do not.  Installing libsoup-3.x into
        BLFS is known to cause troubles, even if both libsoup-2.x and 3.x
        are installed.  So, do <emphasis role='bold'>not</emphasis> install
        libsoup-3.x into BLFS unless you know what you are doing. We plan
        to keep using libsoup-2.x for BLFS until GNOME-43 release.
      </para>
    </warning>
-->
    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">libsoup3 Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required">
      <xref linkend="glib-networking"/>,
      <xref linkend="libpsl"/>,
      <xref linkend="libxml2"/>, and
      <xref linkend="sqlite"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
      <xref linkend="gobject-introspection"/> and
      <xref linkend="vala"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="apache"/> (required to run the test suite),
      <xref linkend="brotli"/>,
      <xref linkend="curl"/> (required to run the test suite),
      <xref linkend="sysprof"/> (for profiling),
      <xref linkend="mitkrb"/> (required to run the test suite),
      <xref linkend="gtk-doc"/>,
         <!-- It seems that XMLRPC is part of PHP 5.4.10 -->
      <xref linkend="php"/> compiled with XMLRPC-EPI
      support (only used for the XMLRPC regression tests), and
      <xref linkend="samba"/> (ntlm_auth is required to run the test suite)
    </para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">
      User Notes: <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/libsoup3"/>
    </para>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of libsoup3</title>

    <para>
      Install <application>libsoup3</application> by running the following
      commands:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>mkdir build &amp;&amp;
cd    build &amp;&amp;

meson --prefix=/usr       \
      --buildtype=release \
      -Dvapi=enabled      \
      -Dgssapi=disabled   \
      -Dsysprof=disabled  \
      ..                  &amp;&amp;
ninja</userinput></screen>

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

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

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

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
      href="../../xincludes/meson-buildtype-release.xml"/>

    <para>
      <option>-Dvapi=disabled</option>: Use this if you have not installed
      <application>Vala</application>, e.g. because you are not building
      <application>GNOME</application>.
    </para>

    <para>
      <option>-Ddoc=enabled</option>: Use this option if you want to build
      the documentation. Note that you must have <xref linkend="gtk-doc"/> installed.
    </para>

    <para>
      <parameter>-Dgssapi=disabled</parameter>: libsoup3 defaults to building with GSSAPI support,
      which requires Kerberos (as does the test suite).
    </para>

    <para>
      <parameter>-Dsysprof=disabled</parameter>: libsoup3 will automatically download
      a git version of <xref linkend="sysprof"/> if git is available or use the installed
      version if available.  If you need profiling, remove this option.
    </para>

  </sect2>

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

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>
          None
        </seg>
        <seg>
          libsoup-3.0.so 
        </seg>
        <seg>
          /usr/include/libsoup-3.0,
          /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libsoup-3.0 (only installed if -Ddoc=true is passed)
        </seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

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

      <varlistentry id="libsoup-3">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libsoup-3.0.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            provides functions for asynchronous HTTP connections
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="libsoup libsoup-3">
            <primary sortas="c-libsoup-3">libsoup-3.0.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>