Packaging Guide

Some notes on how to package PyGObject

Source packages can be found at https://download.gnome.org/sources/pygobject

Existing Packages:

• https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/python-gobject

• https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/pygobject

• https://github.com/MSYS2/MINGW-packages/tree/master/mingw-w64-pygobject

Building:

python3 setup.py build
python3 setup.py test # if you want to run the test suite
python3 setup.py install --prefix="${PREFIX}" --root="${PKGDIR}"

Runtime dependencies:

• glib

• libgirepository (gobject-introspection)

• libffi

• Python 3

The overrides directory contains various files which includes various Python imports mentioning gtk, gdk etc. They are only used when the corresponding library is present, they are not direct dependencies.

Build dependencies:

• The runtime dependencies

• cairo (optional)

• pycairo (optional)

• pkg-config

• setuptools (optional)

Test Suite dependencies:

• The runtime dependencies

• GTK 4 (optional)

• pango (optional)

• pycairo (optional)