[9d3d8a8] | 1 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 |
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| 7 | <!ENTITY gobject-introspection-download-http "&gnome-download-http;/gobject-introspection/0.6/gobject-introspection-&gobject-introspection-version;.tar.bz2">
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[8df1ced] | 8 | <!ENTITY gobject-introspection-download-ftp "&gnome-download-ftp;/gobject-introspection/0.6/gobject-introspection-&gobject-introspection-version;.tar.bz2">
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[7f823f1d] | 9 | <!ENTITY gobject-introspection-md5sum "7ea9be9a347b5c408fd3c3907803de9b">
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| 10 | <!ENTITY gobject-introspection-size "745 KB">
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| 11 | <!ENTITY gobject-introspection-buildsize "20 MB">
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[4e805c3] | 12 | <!ENTITY gobject-introspection-time "0.4 SBU">
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[9d3d8a8] | 13 | ]>
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| 14 |
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| 15 | <sect1 id="gobject-introspection" xreflabel="gobject-introspection-&gobject-introspection-version;">
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| 16 | <?dbhtml filename="gobject-introspection.html"?>
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| 17 |
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| 18 | <sect1info>
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| 19 | <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
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| 20 | <date>$Date$</date>
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| 21 | </sect1info>
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| 22 |
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| 23 | <title>gobject-introspection-&gobject-introspection-version;</title>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <indexterm zone="gobject-introspection">
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| 26 | <primary sortas="a-gobject-introspection">gobject-introspection</primary>
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| 27 | </indexterm>
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| 28 |
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| 29 | <sect2 role="package">
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| 30 | <title>Introduction to gobject-introspection</title>
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| 31 |
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| 32 | <para>The <application>gobject-introspection</application> package is used
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| 33 | to describe the APIs and collect them in a uniform, machine readable
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| 34 | format.</para>
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| 35 |
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[27e62762] | 36 | &lfs65_checked;
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| 37 |
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[9d3d8a8] | 38 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
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| 39 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 40 | <listitem>
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| 41 | <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&gobject-introspection-download-http;"/></para>
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| 42 | </listitem>
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| 43 | <listitem>
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| 44 | <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&gobject-introspection-download-ftp;"/></para>
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| 45 | </listitem>
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| 46 | <listitem>
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| 47 | <para>Download MD5 sum: &gobject-introspection-md5sum;</para>
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| 48 | </listitem>
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| 49 | <listitem>
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| 50 | <para>Download size: &gobject-introspection-size;</para>
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| 51 | </listitem>
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| 52 | <listitem>
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| 53 | <para>Estimated disk space required: &gobject-introspection-buildsize;</para>
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| 54 | </listitem>
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| 55 | <listitem>
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| 56 | <para>Estimated build time: &gobject-introspection-time;</para>
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| 57 | </listitem>
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| 58 | </itemizedlist>
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| 59 |
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| 60 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
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[38637c1b] | 61 | <para role="required"><xref linkend="glib2"/>,
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[3531524] | 62 | <xref linkend="libffi"/> or <xref linkend="gcc"/> (build Java so that
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| 63 | <filename class='libraryfile'>libffi</filename> is built), and
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[38637c1b] | 64 | <xref linkend="python"/></para>
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[9d3d8a8] | 65 |
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| 66 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
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[7f823f1d] | 67 | <para role="optional"><xref linkend="cairo"/> (Required for the tests) and
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| 68 | <xref linkend="gtk-doc"/></para>
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[9d3d8a8] | 69 |
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| 70 | <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
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| 71 | <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/gobject-introspection"/></para>
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| 72 |
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| 73 | </sect2>
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| 74 |
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| 75 | <sect2 role="installation">
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| 76 | <title>Installation of gobject-introspection</title>
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| 77 |
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[0e5775b6] | 78 | <note>
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| 79 | <para>If you have Python-2.7 installed, issue the following command to
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| 80 | prevent a build failure:</para>
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| 81 | <screen><userinput>sed -i 's/Importer:/Importer(None, None):/' \
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| 82 | giscanner/{sourcescanner,xmlwriter}.py</userinput></screen>
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| 83 | </note>
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| 84 |
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[9d3d8a8] | 85 | <para>Install <application>gobject-introspection</application> by running
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| 86 | the following commands:</para>
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| 87 |
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[7f823f1d] | 88 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr \
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| 89 | --disable-tests &&
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[9d3d8a8] | 90 | make</userinput></screen>
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| 91 |
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| 92 | <para>To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>.</para>
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| 93 |
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| 94 | <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
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| 95 |
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| 96 | <screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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| 97 |
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| 98 | </sect2>
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| 99 |
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| 100 | <sect2 role="commands">
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| 101 | <title>Command Explanations</title>
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| 102 |
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[7f823f1d] | 103 | <para><parameter>--disable-tests</parameter>: This parameter disable test
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| 104 | libraries. Remove the parameter if you have <application>cairo</application>
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| 105 | installed and would like the tests to be performed.</para>
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| 106 |
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[e05cd03f] | 107 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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[9d3d8a8] | 108 | href="../../xincludes/gtk-doc-rebuild.xml"/>
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| 109 |
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| 110 | </sect2>
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| 111 |
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| 112 | <sect2 role="content">
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| 113 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 114 |
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| 115 | <segmentedlist>
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| 116 | <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
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| 117 | <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
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| 118 | <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
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| 119 |
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| 120 | <seglistitem>
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[7f823f1d] | 121 | <seg>g-ir-compiler and g-ir-generate</seg>
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| 122 | <seg>_giscanner.{so,a} and libgirepository-1.0.{so,a}</seg>
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[9d3d8a8] | 123 | <seg>/usr/{include/gobject-introspection-1.0,lib/{girepository-1.0,
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[7f823f1d] | 124 | gobject-introspection/giscanner},share/{gir-1.0,
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| 125 | gobject-introspection-1.0}}</seg>
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[9d3d8a8] | 126 | </seglistitem>
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| 127 | </segmentedlist>
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| 128 |
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| 129 | <variablelist>
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| 130 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 131 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 132 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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| 133 |
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| 134 | <varlistentry id="g-ir-compiler">
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| 135 | <term><command>g-ir-compiler</command></term>
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| 136 | <listitem>
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| 137 | <para>converts one or more GIR files into one or more typelib.</para>
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| 138 | <indexterm zone="gobject-introspection g-ir-compiler">
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| 139 | <primary sortas="b-g-ir-compiler">g-ir-compiler</primary>
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| 140 | </indexterm>
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| 141 | </listitem>
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| 142 | </varlistentry>
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| 143 |
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| 144 | <varlistentry id="g-ir-scanner">
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| 145 | <term><command>g-ir-scanner</command></term>
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| 146 | <listitem>
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| 147 | <para>is a tool which generates GIR XML files by parsing headers and
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| 148 | introspecting GObject based libraries.</para>
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| 149 | <indexterm zone="gobject-introspection g-ir-scanner">
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| 150 | <primary sortas="b-g-ir-scanner">g-ir-scanner</primary>
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| 151 | </indexterm>
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| 152 | </listitem>
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| 153 | </varlistentry>
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| 154 |
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| 155 | <varlistentry id="g-ir-generate">
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| 156 | <term><command>g-ir-generate</command></term>
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| 157 | <listitem>
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| 158 | <para>is a GIR generator, using the repository API.</para>
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| 159 | <indexterm zone="gobject-introspection g-ir-generate">
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| 160 | <primary sortas="b-g-ir-generate">g-ir-generate</primary>
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| 161 | </indexterm>
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| 162 | </listitem>
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| 163 | </varlistentry>
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| 164 |
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| 165 | <varlistentry id="libgirepository-1.0">
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| 166 | <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libgirepository-1.0.{so,a}</filename></term>
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| 167 | <listitem>
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| 168 | <para>provides an API to access to the typelib metadata.</para>
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| 169 | <indexterm zone="gobject-introspection libgirepository-1.0">
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| 170 | <primary sortas="c-libgirepository-1.0">libgirepository-1.0.{so,a}</primary>
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| 171 | </indexterm>
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| 172 | </listitem>
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| 173 | </varlistentry>
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| 174 |
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| 175 | <varlistentry id="libgirepository-everything-1.0">
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| 176 | <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libgirepository-everything-1.0.{so,a}</filename></term>
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| 177 | <listitem>
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| 178 | <para>provides an API to access to the typelib metadata.</para>
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| 179 | <indexterm zone="gobject-introspection libgirepository-everything-1.0">
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| 180 | <primary sortas="c-libgirepository-everything-1.0">libgirepository-everything-1.0.{so,a}</primary>
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| 181 | </indexterm>
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| 182 | </listitem>
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| 183 | </varlistentry>
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| 184 |
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| 185 | </variablelist>
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| 186 |
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| 187 | </sect2>
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| 188 |
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| 189 | </sect1>
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