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GLib-2.2.3

Introduction to GLib

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.

Package information

Download (HTTP): http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/graphics/gimp/gtk/v2.2/glib-2.2.3.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.2/glib-2.2.3.tar.bz2
Download size: 1.6 MB
Estimated Disk space required: 23.3 MB
Estimated build time: 0.49 SBU

GLib dependencies

Required

pkgconfig-0.15.0

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.0, DocBook XML DTD-4.2 and DocBook XSL Stylesheets-1.62.4

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.

The glib package contains libglib-2.0 libraries.

Description

GLib libraries

GLib libraries contain a low-level core library for the GIMP Toolkit.

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