1 Simple install procedure
2 ========================
4 % gzip -cd glib-2.5.0.tar.gz | tar xvf - # unpack the sources
5 % cd glib-2.5.0 # change to the toplevel directory
6 % ./configure # run the `configure' script
9 [ Become root if necessary ]
10 % rm -rf /install-prefix/include/glib.h /install-prefix/include/gmodule.h
11 % make install # install GLIB
16 GLib-2.0 requires pkg-config, which is tool for tracking the
17 compilation flags needed for libraries. (For each library, a small .pc
18 text file is installed in a standard location that contains the
19 compilation flags needed for that library along with version number
20 information.) Information about pkg-config can be found at:
22 http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig/
24 GNU make (http://www.gnu.org/software/make) is also recommended.
26 In order to implement conversions between character sets,
27 GLib requires an implementation of the standard iconv() routine.
28 Most modern systems will have a suitable implementation, however
29 many older systems lack an iconv() implementation. On such systems,
30 you must install the libiconv library. This can be found at:
32 http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/
34 If your system has an iconv implementation but you want to use
35 libiconv instead, you can pass the --with-libiconv option to
36 configure. This forces libiconv to be used.
38 Note that if you have libiconv installed in your default include
39 search path (for instance, in /usr/local/), but don't enable
40 it, you will get an error while compiling GLib because the
41 iconv.h that libiconv installs hides the system iconv.
43 If you are using the native iconv implementation on Solaris
44 instead of libiconv, you'll need to make sure that you have
45 the converters between locale encodings and UTF-8 installed.
46 At a minimum you'll need the SUNWuiu8 package. You probably
47 should also install the SUNWciu8, SUNWhiu8, SUNWjiu8, and
50 The native iconv on Compaq Tru64 doesn't contain support for
51 UTF-8, so you'll need to use GNU libiconv instead. (When
52 using GNU libiconv for GLib, you'll need to use GNU libiconv
53 for GNU gettext as well.) This probably applies to related
54 operating systems as well.
56 Finally, for message catalog handling, GLib requires an implementation
57 of gettext(). If your system doesn't provide this functionality,
58 you should use the libintl library from the GNU gettext package,
61 http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/
66 Complete information about installing GLib can be found
69 docs/reference/glib/html/glib-building.html
73 http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-building.html
76 Installation directories
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79 The location of the installed files is determined by the --prefix
80 and --exec-prefix options given to configure. There are also more
81 detailed flags to control individual directories. However, the
82 use of these flags is not tested.
84 One particular detail to note, is that the architecture-dependent
85 include file glibconfig.h is installed in:
87 $exec_prefix/lib/glib/include/
89 if you have a version in $prefix/include, this is out of date
90 and should be deleted.
92 .pc files for the various libraries are installed in
93 $exec_prefix/lib/pkgconfig to provide information when compiling
94 other packages that depend on GLib. If you set PKG_CONFIG_PATH
95 so that it points to this directory, then you can get the
96 correct include flags and library flags for compiling a GLib
99 pkg-config --cflags glib-2.0
100 pkg-config --libs glib-2.0
106 Information about cross-compilation of GLib can be found
109 docs/reference/glib/html/glib-cross-compiling.html