In order to implement conversions between character sets,
GLib requires an implementation of the standard iconv() routine.
Most modern systems will have a suitable implementation, however
-many older systems lack an iconv() implementation. On such systems,
+many older systems lack an iconv() implementation. On such systems,
you must install the libiconv library. This can be found at:
http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/
If your system has an iconv implementation but you want to use
libiconv instead, you can pass the --with-libiconv option to
-configure. This forces libiconv to be used.
+configure. This forces libiconv to be used.
Note that if you have libiconv installed in your default include
search path (for instance, in /usr/local/), but don't enable
iconv.h that libiconv installs hides the system iconv.
If you are using the native iconv implementation on Solaris
-instead of libiconv, you'll need to make sure that you have
+instead of libiconv, you'll need to make sure that you have
the converters between locale encodings and UTF-8 installed.
At a minimum you'll need the SUNWuiu8 package. You probably
should also install the SUNWciu8, SUNWhiu8, SUNWjiu8, and
http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/
+
+Support for extended attributes and SELinux in GIO requires
+libattr and libselinux.
+
+Some of the mimetype-related functionality in GIO requires the
+update-mime-database and update-desktop-database utilities, which
+are part of shared-mime-info and desktop-file-utils, respectively.
+
+
The Nitty-Gritty
================
-Complete information about installing GLib can be found
+Complete information about installing GLib can be found
in the file:
-
+
docs/reference/glib/html/glib-building.html
-
+
Or online at:
-
+
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-building.html
if you have a version in $prefix/include, this is out of date
and should be deleted.
-.pc files for the various libraries are installed in
+.pc files for the various libraries are installed in
$exec_prefix/lib/pkgconfig to provide information when compiling
other packages that depend on GLib. If you set PKG_CONFIG_PATH
-so that it points to this directory, then you can get the
+so that it points to this directory, then you can get the
correct include flags and library flags for compiling a GLib
application with:
Cross-compiling GLib
====================
-Information about cross-compilation of GLib can be found
+Information about cross-compilation of GLib can be found
in the file:
-
+
docs/reference/glib/html/glib-cross-compiling.html
-
+
Or online at:
+
+ http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/stable/glib-cross-compiling.html