1 Simple install procedure 2 ======================== 3 4 % gzip -cd glib-@GLIB_VERSION (a] .tar.gz | tar xvf - # unpack the sources 5 % cd glib-@GLIB_VERSION@ # change to the toplevel directory 6 % ./configure # run the `configure' script 7 % make # build GLIB 8 9 [ Become root if necessary ] 10 % rm -rf /install-prefix/include/glib.h /install-prefix/include/gmodule.h 11 % make install # install GLIB 12 13 Requirements 14 ============ 15 16 GLib-2.0 requires pkg-config, which is tool for tracking the 17 compilation flags needed for libraries. (For each library, a small .pc 18 text file is installed in a standard location that contains the 19 compilation flags needed for that library along with version number 20 information.) Information about pkg-config can be found at: 21 22 http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig/ 23 24 GNU make (http://www.gnu.org/software/make) is also recommended. 25 26 In order to implement conversions between character sets, 27 GLib requires an implementation of the standard iconv() routine. 28 Most modern systems will have a suitable implementation, however 29 many older systems lack an iconv() implementation. On such systems, 30 you must install the libiconv library. This can be found at: 31 32 http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/ 33 34 If your system has an iconv implementation but you want to use 35 libiconv instead, you can pass the --with-libiconv option to 36 configure. This forces libiconv to be used. 37 38 Note that if you have libiconv installed in your default include 39 search path (for instance, in /usr/local/), but don't enable 40 it, you will get an error while compiling GLib because the 41 iconv.h that libiconv installs hides the system iconv. 42 43 If you are using the native iconv implementation on Solaris 44 instead of libiconv, you'll need to make sure that you have 45 the converters between locale encodings and UTF-8 installed. 46 At a minimum you'll need the SUNWuiu8 package. You probably 47 should also install the SUNWciu8, SUNWhiu8, SUNWjiu8, and 48 SUNWkiu8 packages. 49 50 The native iconv on Compaq Tru64 doesn't contain support for 51 UTF-8, so you'll need to use GNU libiconv instead. (When 52 using GNU libiconv for GLib, you'll need to use GNU libiconv 53 for GNU gettext as well.) This probably applies to related 54 operating systems as well. 55 56 Finally, for message catalog handling, GLib requires an implementation 57 of gettext(). If your system doesn't provide this functionality, 58 you should use the libintl library from the GNU gettext package, 59 available from: 60 61 http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/ 62 63 64 Support for extended attributes and SELinux in GIO requires 65 libattr and libselinux. 66 67 Some of the mimetype-related functionality in GIO requires the 68 update-mime-database and update-desktop-database utilities, which 69 are part of shared-mime-info and desktop-file-utils, respectively. 70 71 72 The Nitty-Gritty 73 ================ 74 75 Complete information about installing GLib can be found 76 in the file: 77 78 docs/reference/glib/html/glib-building.html 79 80 Or online at: 81 82 http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-building.html 83 84 85 Installation directories 86 ======================== 87 88 The location of the installed files is determined by the --prefix 89 and --exec-prefix options given to configure. There are also more 90 detailed flags to control individual directories. However, the 91 use of these flags is not tested. 92 93 One particular detail to note, is that the architecture-dependent 94 include file glibconfig.h is installed in: 95 96 $exec_prefix/lib/glib/include/ 97 98 if you have a version in $prefix/include, this is out of date 99 and should be deleted. 100 101 .pc files for the various libraries are installed in 102 $exec_prefix/lib/pkgconfig to provide information when compiling 103 other packages that depend on GLib. If you set PKG_CONFIG_PATH 104 so that it points to this directory, then you can get the 105 correct include flags and library flags for compiling a GLib 106 application with: 107 108 pkg-config --cflags glib-2.0 109 pkg-config --libs glib-2.0 110 111 112 Cross-compiling GLib 113 ==================== 114 115 Information about cross-compilation of GLib can be found 116 in the file: 117 118 docs/reference/glib/html/glib-cross-compiling.html 119 120 Or online at: 121 122 http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/stable/glib-cross-compiling.html 123
