#### Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd Edition) - Version 11.1

### Chapter 9. General Libraries

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# libgsf-1.14.48

## Introduction to libgsf

The libgsf package contains a library used for providing an extensible input/output abstraction layer for structured file formats.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-11.1 platform.

### Package Information

- Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/libgsf/1.14/libgsf-1.14.48.tar.xz

- Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/libgsf/1.14/libgsf-1.14.48.tar.xz

- Download MD5 sum: 337a0dfa832d2af6f171b53adac697c1

- Download size: 688 KB

- Estimated disk space required: 14 MB (with tests)

- Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU (with tests)

### libgsf Dependencies

#### Required

GLib-2.70.4 and libxml2-2.9.13

#### Recommended

gdk-pixbuf-2.42.6 (To build gsf-office-thumbnailer)

#### Optional

gobject-introspection-1.70.0 and GTK-Doc-1.33.2

User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libgsf

## Installation of libgsf

Install libgsf by running the following commands:

    ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
    make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the `root` user:

    make install

## Command Explanations

`--disable-static`: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

`--enable-gtk-doc`: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

## Contents

Installed Programs: gsf, gsf-office-thumbnailer, and gsf-vba-dump
Installed Library: libgsf-1.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/libgsf-1, /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gsf and /usr/share/thumbnailers

### Short Descriptions

gsf | is a simple archive utility, somewhat similar to tar(1)
gsf-office-thumbnailer | is used internally by GNOME applications such as Nautilus to generate thumbnails of several types of office application files
gsf-vba-dump | is used to extract Visual Basic for Applications macros from files
`libgsf-1.so` | contains the libgsf API functions

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