Meson and webp-pixbuf-loader about geeqie

[eli-schwartz]

Hmm. I thought that gdk-pixbuf loaders were plugins that are supposed to be used by the gdk-pixbuf API rather than directly using the loader itself.

Are you doing this in order to link to the loader or just to assert that as a runtime dependency, it is installed? In the latter case it may be sufficient simply to document in the README that it should be installed.

You can get the gdk-pixbuf loader directory with:

dependency('gdk-pixbuf-2.0', method: 'pkg-config').get_variable('gdk_pixbuf_moduledir')

[caclark]

As far as I see, loading libgtk-pixbuf also loads standard loaders like png, ico etc., but not the webp loader.
I do not know why, but maybe that will change in the future.

I just want the meson user to be informed that the webp loader is not installed.

I will hack something using the gdk-pixbuf-loader directory as you have detailed in order that the user is informed that the webp loader is or is not installed.

Thanks for the information.