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

### Chapter 13. Programming

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# Sysprof-3.42.1

## Introduction to Sysprof

The sysprof package contains a statistical and system-wide profiler for Linux.

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

### Package Information

- Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/sysprof/3.42/sysprof-3.42.1.tar.xz

- Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/sysprof/3.42/sysprof-3.42.1.tar.xz

- Download MD5 sum: 65806947529739798b5af3cdfffd5f61

- Download size: 476 KB

- Estimated disk space required: 48 MB

- Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU (using parallelism=4)

### Sysprof Dependencies

#### Required

GTK+-3.24.31, JSON-GLib-1.6.6, libdazzle-3.42.0, and Polkit-0.120

#### Optional

libunwind

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

## Installation of Sysprof

Install Sysprof by running the following commands:

    mkdir build &&
    cd    build &&

    meson --prefix=/usr .. &&
    ninja

To test the results, issue: ninja test.

Now, as the `root` user:

    ninja install

## Contents

Installed Programs: sysprof and sysprof-cli
Installed Libraries: libsysprof-4.so, libsysprof-capture-4.a, libsysprof-memory-4.so, libsysprof-speedtrack-4.so, and libsysprof-ui-4.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/sysprof-4 and /usr/share/help/*/sysprof

### Short Descriptions

sysprof | is a graphical interface to sysprof
sysprof-cli | is a command line interface to sysprof
`libsysprof-4.so` | provides API functions for profiling processes running on a system
`libsysprof-capture-4.a` | provides a hook used to capture statistics from a process
`libsysprof-memory-4.so` | provides API functions for capturing memory statistics
`libsysprof-speedtrack-4.so` | provides API functions for tracking the speed of a running process
`libsysprof-ui-4.so` | provides API functions for the sysprof GUI

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