1 Simple install procedure
2 ========================
4 % gzip -cd glib-2.2.0.tar.gz | tar xvf - # unpack the sources
5 % cd glib-2.2.0 # 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 GTK+ 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 GTK+, 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, GTK+ 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 The 'configure' script can be given a number of options to enable
67 and disable various features. For a complete list, type:
71 A few of the more important ones:
73 * --prefix=PREFIX install architecture-independent files in PREFIX
74 [ Defaults to /usr/local ]
76 * --exec-prefix=EPREFIX install architecture-dependent files in EPREFIX
77 [ Defaults to the value given to --prefix ]
79 * --enable-debug=[yes/no/minimum] determines the amount of debugging
80 code to include. 'yes' will includes some
81 extra checks and debugging features that
82 may be useful for people developing with
83 GLib. 'no' produces a somewhat smaller and
84 faster library at the expense of reduced
86 [ Defaults to 'minimum' for stable releases ]
88 * --enable-gc-friendly When enabled all memory freed by the application,
89 but retained by GLib for performance reasons
90 is set to zero, thus making deployed garbage
91 collection or memory profiling tools detect
92 unlinked memory correctly. This will make GLib
94 [ --disable-gc-friendly is default ]
96 * --disable-mem-pools Do not cache freed objects. When specified,
97 GLib will immediately return freed memory
98 to the C library instead of keeping around
99 pools of free objects such as linked list
100 and hash table nodes. Specifying this
101 will make GLib slower in most cases, but it
102 will use less memory.
103 [ --enable-mem-pools is the default ]
105 * --disable-threads Do not compile GLib to be multi thread safe. GLib
106 will be slightly faster then. This is however not
107 recommended, as many programs rely on GLib being
109 [ --enable-threads is the default ]
111 * --with-threads=[none/posix/dce/solaris/win32] Specify a thread
112 implementation to use.
113 * 'posix' and 'dce' can be used interchangeable
114 to mean the different versions of posix
115 threads. configure tries to find out, which
117 * 'solaris' uses the native Solaris thread
119 * 'none' means that GLib will be thread safe,
120 but does not have a default thread
121 implementation. This has to be supplied to
122 g_thread_init() by the programmer.
123 [ Determined by configure by default ]
125 * --enable-included-printf=[yes/no/auto] Specify whether to build using
126 the included copy of the Trio library
127 for string formatting functions like printf().
128 The default is 'auto', which means that
129 Trio will be used if configure detects
130 missing features in your system native
131 printf implementation.
133 Options can be given to the compiler and linker by setting
134 environment variables before running configure. A few of the more
137 CC : The C compiler to use
138 CPPFLAGS : Flags for the C preprocesser such as -I and -D
139 CFLAGS : C compiler flags
141 The most important use of this is to set the
142 optimization/debugging flags. For instance, to compile with no
143 debugging information at all, run configure as:
145 CFLAGS=-O2 ./configure # Bourne compatible shells (sh/bash/zsh)
149 setenv CFLAGS -O2 ; ./configure # csh and variants
152 Installation directories
153 ========================
155 The location of the installed files is determined by the --prefix
156 and --exec-prefix options given to configure. There are also more
157 detailed flags to control individual directories. However, the
158 use of these flags is not tested.
160 One particular detail to note, is that the architecture-dependent
161 include file glibconfig.h is installed in:
163 $exec_prefix/lib/glib/include/
165 if you have a version in $prefix/include, this is out of date
166 and should be deleted.
168 .pc files for the various libraries are installed in
169 $exec_prefix/lib/pkgconfig to provide information when compiling
170 other packages that depend on GTK+. If you set PKG_CONFIG_PATH
171 so that it points to this directory, then you can get the
172 correct include flags and library flags for compiling a GLib
175 pkg-config --cflags glib-2.0
176 pkg-config --libs glib-2.0
182 Information about cross-compilation of GLib can be found
185 docs/reference/glib/docs/reference/glib/html/glib-cross-compiling.html
189 http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-cross-compiling.html