]> for GLib &version; The latest version of this documentation can be found on-line at https://developer.gnome.org/glib/unstable/. GLib is a general-purpose utility library, which provides many useful data types, macros, type conversions, string utilities, file utilities, a mainloop abstraction, and so on. It works on many UNIX-like platforms, as well as Windows and OS X. GLib is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License (GNU LGPL).