Low-level core library that forms the basis for projects such as GTK+ and GNOME.
Go to file
Philip Withnall b810bdc94d gconvert: Add an assertion to help static analysis
`g_convert()` returns `NULL` iff it returns an error, but the static
analyser can’t quite work that out. Add an assertion to help.

Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>

Coverity CID: #1486844
2022-05-05 11:19:50 +01:00
.gitlab-ci build: Move lcovrc file to root so it’s picked up by Meson 2022-04-28 11:57:45 +01:00
docs Merge branch 'list-store-equal-full' into 'main' 2022-04-05 18:02:15 +00:00
fuzzing fuzzing: Fix test failure with G_DISABLE_ASSERT 2022-03-08 11:52:30 +00:00
gio Merge branch 'gdbus-threading-test-fix-maybe' into 'main' 2022-04-29 08:05:52 +00:00
glib gconvert: Add an assertion to help static analysis 2022-05-05 11:19:50 +01:00
gmodule docs: mark macros, flags, enums with percent sign 2022-03-04 16:21:55 +00:00
gobject docs: Expand G_DEFINE_BOXED_TYPE docs with more detailed example 2022-04-25 10:39:27 +00:00
gthread Meson: Override every dependency glib provides 2020-04-05 00:34:04 -04:00
m4macros m4macros: Increment serial number of glib-2.0.m4 2021-01-27 11:55:37 +00:00
po Update British English translation 2022-04-24 10:31:01 +00:00
subprojects Update subproject pcre.wrap to last version 2022-02-18 10:19:07 +01:00
tests Removing unused tests/timeloop.c and tests/timeloop-basic.c 2022-04-26 20:20:03 +02:00
.clang-format CI: Code check formating in CI 2019-11-21 14:03:01 -06:00
.dir-locals.el Add .dir-locals.el to tell Emacs users not to use tabs for C 2012-07-30 04:09:08 -04:00
.editorconfig docs: Add .editorconfig file 2021-10-28 14:47:53 +01:00
.gitattributes git: Add .gitattributes file with EOL settings for README.win32 2017-07-10 11:35:31 +01:00
.gitignore build: Drop autotools support 2019-01-15 15:11:43 +00:00
.gitlab-ci.yml Merge branch 'combine-ci-jobs' into 'main' 2022-04-29 08:03:49 +00:00
.lcovrc build: Move lcovrc file to root so it’s picked up by Meson 2022-04-28 11:57:45 +01:00
AUTHORS docs: Rename README.in to README.md for GitLab 2018-06-15 13:04:59 +01:00
check-abis.sh Correct shellcheck errors (and ignore world splitting when we want it) 2020-11-15 17:34:27 +01:00
clang-format-diff.py py: Reformat all Python files consistently 2020-11-17 15:50:07 +00:00
CONTRIBUTING.md Rename the master branch to main 2021-06-07 14:03:48 +01:00
COPYING Update COPYING file to LGPLv2.1 2017-05-29 19:53:35 +02:00
glib-gettextize.in tree: Fix various typos and outdated terminology 2020-06-12 15:01:08 +01:00
glib.doap docs: Update various external links to use HEAD instead of master 2021-06-07 14:03:48 +01:00
glib.supp glib.supp: Suppress one-time allocation in g_get_home_dir() 2021-11-29 16:57:33 +00:00
HACKING docs: Update HACKING and README to mention Meson rather than autotools 2019-01-15 15:11:43 +00:00
INSTALL.in docs: Update some outdated paths in INSTALL.in 2022-01-17 16:21:22 +00:00
meson_options.txt gio: Remove fam file monitor support 2022-03-23 15:41:54 +00:00
meson.build Merge branch 'version-bump' into 'main' 2022-04-05 14:20:14 +00:00
msvc_recommended_pragmas.h msvc_recommended_pragmas.h: Refine for clang-cl 2021-03-30 16:45:07 +08:00
NEWS 2.72.0 2022-03-17 15:01:31 +00:00
NEWS.pre-1-3 updates. 2001-04-03 19:22:44 +00:00
README docs: Rename README.in to README.md for GitLab 2018-06-15 13:04:59 +01:00
README.md docs: Update the README a little 2021-12-09 13:30:23 +00:00
README.rationale Document the stance on ID-based mainloop APIs 2021-07-27 10:21:43 -04:00
README.win32 README.win32: Update and convert to markdown 2019-08-27 12:57:32 +05:30
README.win32.md README.win32.md: Mention about Window 8+ SDK requirement 2021-02-28 11:04:29 +02:00
SECURITY.md docs: Add a note about git-evtag to SECURITY.md 2021-09-07 11:21:12 +00:00
template-tap.test.in tests: Remove redundant --tap options 2019-05-14 12:42:51 +01:00
template.test.in Meson: Install glib tests 2018-07-16 15:36:20 -04:00

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.in'

Supported versions

Only the most recent unstable and stable release series are supported. 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.

Default branch renamed to main

The default development branch of GLib has been renamed to main. To update your local checkout, use:

git checkout master
git branch -m master main
git fetch
git branch --unset-upstream
git branch -u origin/main
git symbolic-ref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD refs/remotes/origin/main