source: general/genlib/glib2.xml@ 5cd0959d

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<sect1 id="GLib2" xreflabel="GLib-&GLib2-version;">
<sect1info>
<othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
<date>$Date$</date>
</sect1info>
<?dbhtml filename="glib2.html"?>
<title>GLib-&GLib2-version;</title>

<sect2>
<title>Introduction to <application>GLib</application></title>
                                                                               
<para>The <application>glib</application> 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.</para>
                                                                               
<sect3><title>Package information</title>
<itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
<listitem><para>Download (HTTP): <ulink
url="&GLib2-download-http;"/></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Download (FTP): <ulink
url="&GLib2-download-ftp;"/></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Download size: &GLib2-size;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Estimated Disk space required:
&GLib2-buildsize;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Estimated build time:
&GLib2-time;</para></listitem></itemizedlist>
</sect3>
                                                                               
<sect3><title><application>GLib</application> dependencies</title>
<sect4><title>Required</title>
<para><xref linkend="pkgconfig"/></para></sect4>
<sect4><title>Optional</title>
<para><xref linkend="gtk-doc"/></para></sect4>
</sect3>
                                                                               
</sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Installation of <application>GLib</application></title>
                                                                               
<para>Install <application>glib</application> by running the following commands:</para>
                                                                               
<screen><userinput><command>./configure --prefix=/usr &amp;&amp;
make &amp;&amp;
make install</command></userinput></screen>
                                                                               
</sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Command explanations</title>
                                                                               
<para><option>--enable-gtk-doc</option>: This switch will rebuild
the <acronym>API</acronym> documentation during the
<command>make</command> command.</para>
                                                                               
</sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Contents</title>
                                                                               
<para>The <application>glib</application> package contains
<filename class="libraryfile">libglib-2.0</filename>,
<filename class="libraryfile">libgobject-2.0</filename>,
<filename class="libraryfile">libgmodule-2.0</filename> and
<filename class="libraryfile">libgthread-2.0</filename>
libraries.</para>
                                                                               
</sect2>
                                                                               
<sect2><title>Description</title>
                                                                               
<sect3><title>GLib libraries</title>
<para>GLib libraries contain a low-level core library for the
<application><acronym>GIMP</acronym></application> Toolkit.</para></sect3>
                                                                               
</sect2>

</sect1>