GLib-2.6.3

Introduction to GLib

The glib package contains a low-level core library. This is useful for providing data structure handling for C, portability wrappers and interfaces for such runtime functionality as an event loop, threads, dynamic loading, and an object system.

Package information

GLib dependencies

Required

pkgconfig-0.15.0

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.2

Installation of GLib

Install glib by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make &&
make install

Command explanations

--enable-gtk-doc: This switch will rebuild the API documentation during the make command.

Contents

The glib package contains glib-genmarshal, glib-gettextize, glib-mkenums, gobject-query, libglib-2.0, libgobject-2.0, libgmodule-2.0 and libgthread-2.0 libraries.

Description

glib-genmarshal

glib-genmarshal is a C code marshaller generation utility for GLib closures.

glib-gettextize

glib-gettextize is a variant of the gettext internationalization utility.

glib-mkenums

glib-mkenums is a C language enum description generation utility.

gobject-query

gobject-query is a small utility that draws a tree of types.

GLib libraries

GLib libraries contain a low-level core library for the GIMP Toolkit.

Last updated on 2005-03-06 13:16:09 -0700