If you want to hack on the GLib project, you'll need to have the
following packages installed:
- - GNU autoconf 2.62
- - GNU automake 1.11
- - GNU libtool 2.2
+ - Meson 0.48.0
- GNU gettext 0.10.40
- pkg-config 0.16
- gtk-doc
- libffi 3.0.0
-These should be available by ftp from ftp.gnu.org or any of the
-fine GNU mirrors. Beta software can be found at alpha.gnu.org.
-
-To compile a GIT version of glib on your system, you will need to take
+To compile a Git version of glib on your system, you will need to take
several steps to setup the tree for compilation. You can do all these
steps at once by running:
- checkout/glib# ./autogen.sh
-
-Basically this does the following for you:
-
- checkout/glib# aclocal; automake; autoconf
-
- The above commands create the "configure" script. Now you
- can run the configure script in checkout/glib to create all
- the Makefiles.
-
-Before running autogen.sh or configure, make sure you have libtool
-in your path.
-
-Note that autogen.sh runs configure for you. If you wish to pass
-options like --prefix=/usr to configure you can give those options
-to autogen.sh and they will be passed on to configure.
+ checkout/glib# meson _build
-For information about submitting patches see the README file.
+For information about submitting patches see the CONTRIBUTING.md file. For
+information about major design decisions, see the README.rationale file.