source: general/genlib/glib2.xml@ a54950b

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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>
<indexterm zone="glib2">
<primary sortas="a-GLib2">GLib2</primary></indexterm>

<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 MD5 sum: &glib2-md5sum;</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</command></userinput></screen>

<para>To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>.</para>

<para>Now, as the root user:</para>

<screen><userinput role="root"><command>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>

<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
<segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
<segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
<seglistitem>
<seg>glib-genmarshal, glib-gettextize, glib-mkenums and
gobject-query</seg>
<seg>libglib-2.0.so, libgobject-2.0.so, libgmodule-2.0.so and
libgthread-2.0.so</seg>
<seg>/usr/include/glib-2.0, /usr/lib/glib-2.0 and
/usr/share/glib-2.0</seg>
</seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>

<variablelist>
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
<?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>

<varlistentry id="glib-genmarshal">
<term><command>glib-genmarshal</command></term>
<listitem><para>is a C code marshaller generation utility for GLib
closures.</para>
<indexterm zone="glib2 glib-genmarshal">
<primary sortas="b-glib-genmarshal"></primary></indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry id="glib-gettextize">
<term><command>glib-gettextize</command></term>
<listitem><para>is a variant of the <application>gettext</application>
internationalization utility.</para>
<indexterm zone="glib2 glib-gettextize">
<primary sortas="b-glib-gettextize"></primary></indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry id="glib-mkenums">
<term><command>glib-mkenums</command></term>
<listitem><para>is a C language enum description generation utility.</para>
<indexterm zone="glib2 glib-mkenums">
<primary sortas="b-glib-mkenums"></primary></indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry id="gobject-query">
<term><command>gobject-query</command></term>
<listitem><para>is a small utility that draws a tree of types.</para>
<indexterm zone="glib2 gobject-query">
<primary sortas="b-gobject-query"></primary></indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry id="GLib-libraries">
<term>GLib libraries</term>
<listitem><para>contain a low-level core library for the
<application><acronym>GIMP</acronym></application> Toolkit.</para>
<indexterm zone="glib2 GLib-libraries">
<primary sortas="b-GLib-libraries"></primary></indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

</variablelist>

</sect2>

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