Re: Recompiling libgnome-shell.so

[Bob Andrew <bobandrew planetmail net>]

Thank you Simon.

I had been hoping glib-compile-resources could provide a shorter way
than going through the whole compiling process. Now I wonder what is
the interest of extracting resource files through gresource, except
maybe not having to download the whole source?

Anyway, I'll go the longer way and recompile.

By the way, Gnome is great.

B.

Le lundi 03 octobre 2016 à 11:53 +0100, Simon McVittie a écrit :
> On Sat, 2016-10-01 at 11:15 +0200, Bob Andrew wrote:
> > However, these posts do not explain how to make the changes
> > permanent.
> >
> > I tried to recompile the libgnome-shell.so file using 'glib-
> > compile-
> > resources resources.gresource.xml' but managed only to break gnome-
> > shell. What am i missing?
> At a guess, you are missing the C code used by the lower-level parts
> of
> gnome-shell, which goes into the same library as the JavaScript
> resources.
>
> If you obtained gnome-shell by compiling it from source code (for
> instance in jhbuild), apply your JavaScript changes to that source
> code
> and recompile/install it.
>
> If you obtained gnome-shell from a distribution like Debian, Ubuntu
> or
> Fedora, you will need to apply your JavaScript changes as local
> changes
> to that distribution's gnome-shell package, rebuild the gnome-shell
> package with a local change to the version number, and install the
> new
> package. The precise details of how to do this depend on your
> distribution: for example, if you happen to be using Debian,
> <https://w
> iki.debian.org/BuildingTutorial> is a good starting point.
>
> Regards,
>     S