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27 <p>Overview — General overview of introspection</p>
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33 The GObject-Introspection package contains of a few different parts:
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35 <li class="listitem"><p>The GIR XML format - an XML format describing the exported
36 C API including documentation
38 <li class="listitem"><p>The GTypelib format - a binary format optimized for fast disk access
41 <li class="listitem"><p>g-ir-scanner - parses C source code and gtk-doc comments and
42 generates GIR XML files
44 <li class="listitem"><p>g-ir-compiler - compiles GIR XML files into typelibs
46 <li class="listitem"><p>libgirepository - library to access typelib from C
49 <p>A quick overview how the different components fits together:</p>
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