Low-level core library that forms the basis for projects such as GTK+ and GNOME.
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Tor Lillqvist 97e04b2b5d Make g-ir-scanner work on Windows. Still problems with the typelib code.
2008-08-27  Tor Lillqvist  <tml@novell.com>

	Make g-ir-scanner work on Windows. Still problems with the typelib
	code. Changes okayed by jdahlin.

	* configure.ac: Check for Windows, set Automake conditional
	OS_WIN32. Change backslashes to forward slashes in pyexecdir to
	avoid shell quoting issues
	
	* girepository/Makefile.am: Use -no-undefined so that libtool
	agrees to build a shared library on Windows.

	* girepository/girparser.c (backtrace_stderr): No backtrace() on
	Windows. Empty implementation on Windows so far.

	* girepository/gtypelib.c (g_typelib_check_sanity): Give more
	informative error message for the assertion failures. Tell also
	what the expected size of the struct is. Check all sizes first and
	fail afterwards if at least one size was different from expected.

	* tools/Makefile.am: Reorder libraries into proper logical
	dependency order.

	* tools/generate.c: Don't include <dlfcn.h>, not used.

	* giscanner/Makefile.am: On Windows, link with the Python library,
	and install the module DLL as _giscanner.pyd. Remove the
	unnecessary import library and libtool library that libtool has
	installed.

	* giscanner/scannerlexer.l: Recognize the gcc __attribute__ syntax
	and just skip it. Recognize also two "l" suffixes for long long
	constants. Recognize also __inline__.

	* giscanner/grealpath.h (g_realpath): Implement on Windows, using
	GetFullPathName(). As such, GetFullPathName() does more than the
	UNIX realpath(). It also changes relative paths into absolute
	paths. But for our purposes that shouldn't matter.

	* giscanner/giscannermodule.c (pygi_source_scanner_parse_file): On
	Windows the file descriptor passed to us is from Python. Python
	Python2.5 uses the msvcr71.dll C library, while mingw-built code
	uses msvcrt.dll. On Windows, file descriptors are specific to
	which C library is used. So we must find out what underlying OS
	handle corresponds to the file descriptor Python passes us, and
	then make that into a file descriptor valid for the C library this
	code uses.

	* giscanner/sourcescanner.py (_parse): Don't need to bypass
	__attribute__ as the lexer now handles it. The definition as empty
	was ineffective for mingw anyway, as mingw's _mingw.h undefines
	__attribute__. Close the temp file before unlinking it.

	* giscanner/cgobject.py: Use correct library name for the gobject
	DLL on Windows.

	* gir/Makefile.am: Must pass the full basename of the DLLs on
	Windows to g-ir-scanner. It's a bit ugly that we have to "know"
	that the names of the GLib DLLs are like libglib-2.0-0.dll, but in
	reality they won't change, until there is a GLib 3, and then also
	the Unix code here needs changing.

	Must pass CPPFLAGS to g-ir-scanner when building GLib.gir so that
	libintl.h is found.


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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 wrappers, and interfaces for such runtime functionality as an event loop, threads, dynamic loading, and an object system.

The official download locations are: https://download.gnome.org/sources/glib

The official web site is: https://www.gtk.org/

Installation

See the file INSTALL.md. There is separate and more in-depth documentation for building GLib on Windows.

Supported versions

Upstream GLib only supports the most recent stable release series, the previous stable release series, and the current development release series. All older versions are not supported upstream and may contain bugs, some of which may be exploitable security vulnerabilities.

See SECURITY.md for more details.

Documentation

API documentation is available online for GLib for the:

Discussion

If you have a question about how to use GLib, seek help on GNOMEs Discourse instance. Alternatively, ask a question on StackOverflow and tag it glib.

Reporting bugs

Bugs should be reported to the GNOME issue tracking system. You will need to create an account for yourself. You may also submit bugs by e-mail (without an account) by e-mailing incoming+gnome-glib-658-issue-@gitlab.gnome.org, but this will give you a degraded experience.

Bugs are for reporting problems in GLib itself, not for asking questions about how to use it. To ask questions, use one of our discussion forums.

In bug reports 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.
  • How to reproduce the bug.
    • 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 occurred.
  • Further information such as stack traces may be useful, but is not necessary.

Contributing to GLib

Please follow the contribution guide to know how to start contributing to GLib.

Patches should 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 with the following notation (for issue 123):

Closes: #123

Otherwise, create a new merge request that introduces the change. Filing a separate issue is not required.