%gtkdocentities; ]> Compiling with &package_string; 3 Compiling with &package_string;Notes on compiling. If you need to build &package_string;, get the source from here and see the README.md file. Like other GNOME libraries, &package_string; uses pkg-config to provide compiler options. The package name is "&package_ver_str;". If you use Automake/Autoconf, in your configure.ac script, you might specify something like: PKG_CHECK_MODULES(LIBHANDY, [&package_ver_str;]) AC_SUBST(LIBHANDY_CFLAGS) AC_SUBST(LIBHANDY_LIBS) Or when using the Meson build system you can declare a dependency like: dependency('&package_ver_str;') The "&package_api_version;" in the package name is the "API version" (indicating "the version of the &package_string; API that first appeared in version &package_api_version;") and is essentially just part of the package name. As &package_string; uses the Meson build system, bundling it as a subproject when it is not installed is easy. Add this to your meson.build: &package_string;_dep = dependency('&package_ver_str;', version: '>= &package_version;', required: false) if not &package_string;_dep.found() &package_string; = subproject( '&package_string;', install: false, default_options: [ 'examples=false', 'package_subdir=my-project-name', 'tests=false', ] ) &package_string;_dep = &package_string;.get_variable('&package_string;_dep') endif Then add &package_string; as a git submodule: git submodule add &package_url;.git subprojects/&package_string; To bundle the library with your Flatpak application, add the following module to your manifest: { "name" : "&package_string;", "buildsystem" : "meson", "builddir" : true, "config-opts": [ "-Dexamples=false", "-Dtests=false" ], "sources" : [ { "type" : "git", "url" : "&package_url;.git" } ] } To build on macOS you need to install the build-dependencies first. This can e.g. be done via brew: brew install pkg-config gtk+3 adwaita-icon-theme meson glade gobject-introspection vala After running the command above, one may now build the library: git clone https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libhandy.git cd libhandy meson . _build ninja -C _build test ninja -C _build install Working with the library on macOS is pretty much the same as on Linux. To link it, use pkg-config: gcc $(pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-3.0) $(pkg-config --cflags --libs libhandy-1) main.c -o main