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General Information
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# GLib
GLib is the low-level core library that forms the basis for projects such
as GTK and GNOME. It provides data structure handling for C, portability
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threads, dynamic loading, and an object system.
The official download locations are:
https://download.gnome.org/sources/glib
<https://download.gnome.org/sources/glib>
The official web site is:
https://www.gtk.org/
<https://www.gtk.org/>
Installation
============
## Installation
See the file 'INSTALL'
See the file '[INSTALL.in](INSTALL.in)'
How to report bugs
==================
## How to report bugs
Bugs should be reported to the GNOME issue tracking system.
(https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/issues/new). You will need
(<https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/issues/new>). You will need
to create an account for yourself.
In the bug report please include:
* Information about your system. For instance:
- What operating system and version
- For Linux, what version of the C library
And anything else you think is relevant.
* What operating system and version
* For Linux, what version of the C library
* And anything else you think is relevant.
* How to reproduce the bug.
If you can reproduce it with one of the test programs that are built
* If you can reproduce it with one of the test programs that are built
in the tests/ subdirectory, that will be most convenient. Otherwise,
please include a short test program that exhibits the behavior.
As a last resort, you can also provide a pointer to a larger piece
of software that can be downloaded.
* If the bug was a crash, the exact text that was printed out
when the crash occured.
* Further information such as stack traces may be useful, but
is not necessary.
Patches
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## Patches
Patches should also be submitted as merge requests to gitlab.gnome.org. If the
patch fixes an existing issue, please refer to the issue in your commit message
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Otherwise, create a new merge request that introduces the change, filing a
separate issue is not required.
Notes about GLib 2.48
=====================
## Notes
### Notes about GLib 2.48
* The system copy of PCRE is now used by default to implement GRegex.
Configure with --with-pcre=internal if a system PCRE version
is unavailable or undesired.
Notes about GLib 2.46
=====================
### Notes about GLib 2.46
* GTask no longer imposes a fixed limit on the number of tasks that
can be run_in_thread() simultaneously, since doing this inevitably
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you). If you have a very large number of tasks to run, and don't
want them to all run at once, you should rate-limit them yourself.
Notes about GLib 2.40
=====================
### Notes about GLib 2.40
* g_test_run() no longer runs tests in exactly the order they are
registered; instead, it groups them according to test suites (ie,
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(The behavior actually changed in GLib 2.36, but it was not
documented at the time, since we didn't realize it mattered.)
Notes about GLib 2.36
=====================
### Notes about GLib 2.36
* It is no longer necessary to call g_type_init(). If you are
loading GLib as a dynamic module, you should be careful to avoid
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the previous behavior was clearly broken, so it seems unlikely that
anyone was using it.
Notes about GLib 2.34
=====================
### Notes about GLib 2.34
* GIO now looks for thumbnails in XDG_CACHE_HOME, following a
recent alignment of the thumbnail spec with the basedir spec.
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max_idle_time settings have been changed to 2 and 15*1000,
respectively.
Notes about GLib 2.32
=====================
### Notes about GLib 2.32
* It is no longer necessary to use g_thread_init() or to link against
libgthread. libglib is now always thread-enabled. Custom thread
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or
G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=all
Notes about GLib 2.30
=====================
### Notes about GLib 2.30
* GObject includes a generic marshaller, g_cclosure_marshal_generic.
To use it, simply specify NULL as the marshaller in g_signal_new().
The generic marshaller is implemented with libffi, and consequently
GObject depends on libffi now.
Notes about GLib 2.28
=====================
### Notes about GLib 2.28
* The GApplication API has changed compared to the version that was
included in the 2.25 development snapshots. Existing users will need
adjustments.
Notes about GLib 2.26
=====================
### Notes about GLib 2.26
* Nothing noteworthy.
Notes about GLib 2.24
=====================
### Notes about GLib 2.24
* It is now allowed to call g_thread_init(NULL) multiple times, and
to call glib functions before g_thread_init(NULL) is called
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may not rely on nul-termination here so any breakage caused by this change
is a bug in application code.
Notes about GLib 2.22
=====================
### Notes about GLib 2.22
* Repeated calls to g_simple_async_result_set_op_res_gpointer used
to leak the data. This has been fixed to always call the provided
destroy notify.
Notes about GLib 2.20
=====================
### Notes about GLib 2.20
* The functions for launching applications (e.g. g_app_info_launch() +
friends) now passes a FUSE file:// URI if possible (requires gvfs
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the result of g_file_get_uri() after having constructed a GFile
object with the given URI.
Notes about GLib 2.18
=====================
### Notes about GLib 2.18
* The recommended way of using GLib has always been to only include the
toplevel headers glib.h, glib-object.h and gio.h. GLib enforces this by
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default for GLib headers (it is turned on for GObject and GIO).
To turn it on, define the preprocessor symbol G_DISABLE_SINGLE_INCLUDES.
Notes about GLib 2.16
=====================
### Notes about GLib 2.16
* GLib now includes GIO, which adds optional dependencies against libattr
and libselinux for extended attribute and SELinux support. Use
--disable-xattr and --disable-selinux to build without these.
Notes about GLib 2.10
=====================
### Notes about GLib 2.10
* The functions g_snprintf() and g_vsnprintf() have been removed from
the gprintf.h header, since they are already declared in glib.h. This
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carefully. g_object_compat_control() has been added to GLib 2.8.5
to help with the transition.
Notes about GLib 2.6.0
======================
### Notes about GLib 2.6.0
* GLib 2.6 introduces the concept of 'GLib filename encoding', which is the
on-disk encoding on Unix, but UTF-8 on Windows. All GLib functions