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
+compilation flags needed for that library along with version number
+information.) Information about pkg-config can be found at:
+
+ http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig/
+
+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://clisp.cons.org/~haible/packages-libiconv.html
+ 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
-it, you will get an error while compiling GTK+ because the
+it, you will get an error while compiling GLib because the
iconv.h that libiconv installs hides the system iconv.
-The Nitty-Gritty
-================
-
-The 'configure' script can be given a number of options to enable
-and disable various features. For a complete list, type:
-
- ./configure --help
-
-A few of the more important ones:
+If you are using the native iconv implementation on Solaris
+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
+SUNWkiu8 packages.
-* --prefix=PREFIX install architecture-independent files in PREFIX
- [ Defaults to /usr/local ]
+The native iconv on Compaq Tru64 doesn't contain support for
+UTF-8, so you'll need to use GNU libiconv instead. (When
+using GNU libiconv for GLib, you'll need to use GNU libiconv
+for GNU gettext as well.) This probably applies to related
+operating systems as well.
-* --exec-prefix=EPREFIX install architecture-dependent files in EPREFIX
- [ Defaults to the value given to --prefix ]
+Finally, for message catalog handling, GLib requires an implementation
+of gettext(). If your system doesn't provide this functionality,
+you should use the libintl library from the GNU gettext package,
+available from:
-* --enable-gc-friendly When enabled all memory freed by the application,
- but retained by GLib for performance reasons
- is set to zero, thus making deployed garbage
- collection or memory profiling tools detect
- unlinked memory correctly. This will make GLib
- slightly slower.
- [ Disabled by default ]
+ http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/
-* --disable-threads Do not compile GLib to be multi thread safe. GLib
- will be slightly faster then. This is however not
- recommended, as many programs rely on GLib being
- multi thread safe.
- [ Enabled by default ]
+Support for extended attributes and SELinux in GIO requires
+libattr and libselinux.
-* --with-threads=[none/posix/dce/solaris/win32] Specify a thread
- implementation to use.
- * 'posix' and 'dce' can be used interchangeable
- to mean the different versions of posix
- threads. configure tries to find out, which
- one is installed.
- * 'solaris' uses the native Solaris thread
- implementation.
- * 'none' means that GLib will be thread safe,
- but does not have a default thread
- implementation. This has to be supplied to
- g_thread_init() by the programmer.
- [ Determined by configure by default ]
+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.
-Options can be given to the compiler and linker by setting
-environment variables before running configure. A few of the more
-important ones:
+GObject uses libffi to implement generic marshalling functionality.
- CC : The C compiler to use
- CPPFLAGS : Flags for the C preprocesser such as -I and -D
- CFLAGS : C compiler flags
+The Nitty-Gritty
+================
-The most important use of this is to set the
-optimization/debugging flags. For instance, to compile with no
-debugging information at all, run configure as:
+Complete information about installing GLib can be found
+in the file:
- CFLAGS=-O2 ./configure # Bourne compatible shells (sh/bash/zsh)
+ docs/reference/glib/html/glib-building.html
-or,
+Or online at:
- setenv CFLAGS -O2 ; ./configure # csh and variants
+ https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-building.html
Installation directories
One particular detail to note, is that the architecture-dependent
include file glibconfig.h is installed in:
- $exec_pref/lib/glib/include/
+ $exec_prefix/lib/glib/include/
if you have a version in $prefix/include, this is out of date
and should be deleted.
-A shell script glib-config is created during the configure
-process, and installed in the bin/ directory
-($exec_prefix/bin). This is used to determine the location of glib
-when building applications. If you move glib after installation,
-it will be necessary to edit this file.
+.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
+correct include flags and library flags for compiling a GLib
+application with:
+
+ pkg-config --cflags glib-2.0
+ pkg-config --libs glib-2.0
+
+
+Cross-compiling GLib
+====================
+
+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
projects / platform / upstream / glib.git / blobdiff