source: general/genlib/glib2.xml@ e871a9a1

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  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY glib2-download-http "&gnome-download-http;/glib/2.12/glib-&glib2-version;.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY glib2-download-ftp  "ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/glib/2.12/glib-&glib2-version;.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY glib2-md5sum        "0b3a42098243d054475ff6eb51ed2be1">
  <!ENTITY glib2-size          "2.9 MB">
  <!ENTITY glib2-buildsize     "53 MB">
  <!ENTITY glib2-time          "0.6 SBU (additional 1.3 SBU to run the test suite)">
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<sect1 id="glib2" xreflabel="GLib-&glib2-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="glib2.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>GLib-&glib2-version;</title>

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

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to GLib</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>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <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>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">GLib Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required"><xref linkend="pkgconfig"/></para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional"><xref linkend="gtk-doc"/></para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
    <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/glib2"/></para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of GLib</title>

    <para>Install <application>GLib</application> by running the following
    commands:</para>

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

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

    <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
    href="../../xincludes/gtk-doc-rebuild.xml"/>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="configuration">
    <title>Configuring GLib</title>

    <sect3>
      <title>Configuration Information</title>

      <para>By default, <application>GLib</application> assumes that all
      filenames are in the UTF-8 charset. See the <xref
      linkend="locale-wrong-filename-encoding"/> section of the <xref
      linkend="locale-issues"/> page for more details on this kind of
      issue. In order to tell GLib and applications that use it
      that filenames are in the default locale encoding, set the variable
      <envar>G_FILENAME_ENCODING</envar> to the value "@locale":</para>

<screen><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/profile.d/glib2-locale.sh &lt;&lt; "EOF"
<literal># Use the current locale charset for filenames
# in applications using GLib
export G_FILENAME_ENCODING=@locale</literal>
EOF</userinput></screen>

    </sect3>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <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, /usr/share/glib-2.0,
        /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/glib, and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gobject</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

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

      <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">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">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">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">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>GIMP</application> Toolkit.</para>
          <indexterm zone="glib2 GLib-libraries">
            <primary sortas="c-GLib-libraries">Glib libraries</primary>
          </indexterm>
          </listitem>
        </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

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