Nothing in the repos requires it. It was left out of the install because it's not even built by the default make. Looks like using make shared does build it, any information on why it should be included?

Thank-you for the fast reply. It is needed to compile any software that can use astyle's features - the actual reason I need it is for a Geany plugin that neatens code.

If it isn't going to be included, I'd have to remove the Arch package 'astyle' and compile myself from source to be able to compile the geany plugin

You need to run "make shared" to build shared library and add a line to package() to actually install it.

yes, confirmed... it just needs to be compiled as: make release shared
then add this to line to package(): install -Dm0755 bin/libastyle.so "$pkgdir/usr/lib/libastyle.so"

2 tiny changes to the PKGBUILD :)

actually pkgfile repport that community/codeblocks have a libastyle.so , not sure if the libastyle.so from astyle and the one from codeblocks are the binary same, but it worth know that

Thanks for that, but the tiny size of libastyle, I just compiled it myself - faster than downloading the whole codeblocks package :)

It's just a plugin for CodeBlocks.