GLib

Introduction

GLib is a cross-platform software utility library that began as part of the GTK+ project, however, before releasing version 2 of GTK+, the project's developers decided to separate non-GUI-specific code from the GTK+ platform, thus creating GLib as a separate product. GLib was released as a separate library so other developers, those that did not make use of the GUI-related portions of GTK+, could make use of the non-GUI portions of the library without the overhead of depending on a full-blown GUI library.

Since GLib is a cross-platform library, applications using it to interface with the operating system are usually portable across different operating systems without major changes.

Usage

Compute Systems Invocation Version(s)
Red Hat Linux (64-bit) % /util/bin/[ gio-querymodules | glib-genmarshal | glib-gettextize | glib-mkenums | gobject-query | gtester | gtester-report ] 2.24.2 (default)

References

  1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glib
  2. http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/
  3. http://www.gtk.org/download-linux.html