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glib - Core library that forms the basis of GTK+ and GNOME

GLib is a library containing many useful C routines for things such as trees, hashes, and lists. GLib was previously distributed with the GTK toolkit, but has been split off as of the developers' version 1.1.0.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.gtk.org/
Source tarballftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.4/glib-2.4.4.tar.gz
Source informationftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.4/
Version 2.4.4 (stable) released on 2004-07-09
Version 2.5.0 (devel) released on 2004-07-20
Licensed under LGPL.
This is a GNU package.

Documentation
User FAQ available in HTML format from http://www.gtk.org/faq/; User Install Guide available in HTML format from http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-building.html; User tutorial available in HTML format from http://www.gtk.org/tutorial/
Support contacts

Announce List<gnome-announce-list@gnome.org>
Help List<gtk-list@gnome.org> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
Developer List<gtk-devel-list@gnome.org> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
Bug Listhttp://bugzilla.gnome.org/
Bug Databasehttp://bugzilla.gnome.org/

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers
  • See the AUTHORS file in the distribution for a complete list
Contributors
  • Peter Mattis
  • Spencer Kimball
  • Josh MacDonald
Sponsors
  • Red Hat, Inc.

Related information

Interfaceslibrary
Source languagesC
Build prerequisitespkg-config, make
Weak prerequisiteslibiconv, gettext (for message catalog handling)
Related programsGnome, GTK+, Pango

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2003-06-26
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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