GLib-2.2.1

Introduction to GLib

Download location (HTTP):       
Download location (FTP):        ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.2/glib-2.2.1.tar.bz2
Version used:                   2.2.1
Package size:                   1.5 MB
Estimated Disk space required:  18.7 MB
Estimated build time:           0.87 SBU

The glib 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.

glib depends on:
pkgconfig-0.15.0
glib will utilize:
gtk-doc-1.0 and xml-dtd-4.2

Installation of GLib

Install glib by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make &&
make install

Command explanations

--enable-gtk-doc : This switch will rebuild the API documentation during the make command.

Contents

The glib package contains libglib-2.0 libraries.

Description

GLib libraries

GLib libraries contains a low-level core library for the Gimp Tool Kit.