%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ gobject-introspection-&gobject-introspection-version; gobject-introspection Introduction to gobject-introspection The gobject-introspection package is used to describe the APIs and collect them in a uniform, machine readable format. &lfs70_checked; Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &gobject-introspection-md5sum; Download size: &gobject-introspection-size; Estimated disk space required: &gobject-introspection-buildsize; Estimated build time: &gobject-introspection-time; Required , and Optional (Required for the tests) and User Notes: Installation of gobject-introspection Install gobject-introspection by running the following commands: ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-tests \ --disable-static && make To test the results, issue: make check. Now, as the root user: make install Command Explanations --disable-tests: This parameter disable test libraries. Remove the parameter if you have cairo installed and would like the tests to be performed. Contents Installed Programs Installed Libraries Installed Directories g-ir-annotation-tool, g-ir-compiler, g-ir-generate and g-ir-scanner _giscanner.so and libgirepository-1.0.so /usr/include/gobject-introspection-1.0, /usr/lib/{girepository-1.0,gobject-introspection/giscanner}, /usr/lib/share/{gir-1.0,gobject-introspection-1.0/tests, gtk-doc/html/gi} Short Descriptions g-ir-compiler converts one or more GIR files into one or more typelib. g-ir-compiler g-ir-scanner is a tool which generates GIR XML files by parsing headers and introspecting GObject based libraries. g-ir-scanner g-ir-generate is a GIR generator, using the repository API. g-ir-generate libgirepository-1.0.so provides an API to access to the typelib metadata. libgirepository-1.0.so