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<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>
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url="&glib2-download-http;"/></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Download (FTP): <ulink
url="&glib2-download-ftp;"/></para></listitem>
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<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>
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<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>

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<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>

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<sect2>
<title>Contents</title>

<para>The <application>glib</application> package contains
<command>glib-genmarshal</command>, 
<command>glib-gettextize</command>, 
<command>glib-mkenums</command>, 
<command>gobject-query</command>, 
<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-genmarshal</title>
<para><command>glib-genmarshal</command> is a C code marshaller generation 
utility for GLib closures.</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>glib-gettextize</title>
<para><command>glib-gettextize</command> is a variant of the 
<application>gettext</application> internationalization utility.</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>glib-mkenums</title>
<para><command>glib-mkenums</command> is a C language enum description 
generation utility.</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>gobject-query</title>
<para><command>gobject-query</command> is a small utility that draws a tree 
of types.</para></sect3>

<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>

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