Simple install procedure
========================
- % gzip -cd glib-@GLIB_VERSION@.tar.gz | tar xvf - # unpack the sources
- % cd glib-@GLIB_VERSION@ # change to the toplevel directory
+ % tar xf glib-@GLIB_VERSION@.tar.gz # unpack the sources
+ % cd glib-@GLIB_VERSION@ # change to the toplevel directory
% ./configure # run the `configure' script
% make # build GLIB
Requirements
============
+GLib requires a C90-compliant (but not necessarily C99-compliant) C
+compiler and libc. On UNIX-like systems, it also assumes compliance
+with at least the original 1990 version of POSIX.
+
GLib-2.0 requires pkg-config, which is tool for tracking the
compilation flags needed for libraries. (For each library, a small .pc
text file is installed in a standard location that contains the
http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig/
-GNU make (http://www.gnu.org/software/make) is also recommended.
+GNU make (http://www.gnu.org/software/make) is also required.
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.
+
+GObject uses libffi to implement generic marshalling functionality.
+
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
+
+ https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-building.html
Installation directories
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:
+
+ https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-cross-compiling.html
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