source: general/genlib/gobject-introspection.xml@ 287130e

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<sect1 id="gobject-introspection" xreflabel="gobject-introspection-&gobject-introspection-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="gobject-introspection.html"?>

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

  <title>gobject-introspection-&gobject-introspection-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="gobject-introspection">
    <primary sortas="a-gobject-introspection">gobject-introspection</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to GObject Introspection</title>

    <para>
      The <application>GObject Introspection</application> is used
      to describe the program APIs and collect them in a uniform,
      machine readable format.
    </para>

    &lfs82_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&gobject-introspection-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&gobject-introspection-download-ftp;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &gobject-introspection-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &gobject-introspection-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated disk space required: &gobject-introspection-buildsize;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated build time: &gobject-introspection-time;
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required">
      <xref linkend="glib2"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
      <xref linkend="which"/>
<!-- If - -with-python is used, configure runs "which $PYTHON", where PYTHON
     is set to the argument of the switch. Somewhat silly because the presence
     of which is not tested... -->
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="cairo"/> (required for the tests),
      <xref linkend="gtk-doc"/>,
      <xref linkend="Mako"/>, and
      <xref linkend="python2"/>
    </para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
      <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/gobject-introspection"/>
    </para>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of GObject Introspection</title>

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

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr    \
            --disable-static \
            --with-python=/usr/bin/python3 &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>.
<!--      One test, Regress-1.0.gir, is known to fail with glibc-2.26. -->
    </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/2001/XInclude"
      href="../../xincludes/static-libraries.xml"/>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
      href="../../xincludes/gtk-doc-rebuild.xml"/>

    <para><parameter>--with-python=/usr/bin/python3</parameter>: ensure the
    Python-3.x interpreter is used instead of Python-2.x if installed.</para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Program</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <!-- g-ir-doc-tool is installed if mako is presnet -->
      <seglistitem>
        <seg>
          g-ir-annotation-tool, g-ir-compiler, g-ir-doc-tool,
          g-ir-inspect, g-ir-generate, and g-ir-scanner
        </seg>
        <seg>
          libgirepository-1.0.so and
          /usr/lib/gobject-introspection/giscanner/_giscanner.so
        </seg>
        <seg>
          /usr/include/gobject-introspection-1.0,
          /usr/lib/girepository-1.0,
          /usr/lib/gobject-introspection,
          /usr/share/gir-1.0, and
          /usr/share/gobject-introspection-1.0
        </seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

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

      <varlistentry id="g-ir-annotation-tool">
        <term><command>g-ir-annotation-tool</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            creates or extracts annotation data from GI typelibs.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="gobject-introspection g-ir-annotation-tool">
            <primary sortas="b-g-ir-annotation-tool">g-ir-annotation-tool</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="g-ir-compiler">
        <term><command>g-ir-compiler</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            converts one or more GIR files into one or more typelib.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="gobject-introspection g-ir-compiler">
            <primary sortas="b-g-ir-compiler">g-ir-compiler</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

     <varlistentry id="g-ir-doc-tool">
        <term><command>g-ir-doc-tool</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            generates Mallard files that can be viewed with
            <command>yelp</command> or rendered to HTML with
            <command>yelp-build</command> from <ulink
            url="http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/yelp-tools">yelp-tools</ulink>.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="gobject-introspection g-ir-doc-tool">
            <primary sortas="b-g-ir-doc-tool">g-ir-doc-tool</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="g-ir-inspect">
        <term><command>g-ir-inspect</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a utility that gives information about a GI typelib.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="gobject-introspection g-ir-inspect">
            <primary sortas="b-g-ir-inspect">g-ir-inspect</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="g-ir-scanner">
        <term><command>g-ir-scanner</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a tool which generates GIR XML files by parsing headers and
            introspecting GObject based libraries.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="gobject-introspection g-ir-scanner">
            <primary sortas="b-g-ir-scanner">g-ir-scanner</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="g-ir-generate">
        <term><command>g-ir-generate</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a GIR generator that uses the repository API.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="gobject-introspection g-ir-generate">
            <primary sortas="b-g-ir-generate">g-ir-generate</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libgirepository-1.0">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libgirepository-1.0.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            provides an API to access the typelib metadata.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="gobject-introspection libgirepository-1.0">
            <primary sortas="c-libgirepository-1.0">libgirepository-1.0.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

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