gobject-introspection-0.6.5

Introduction to gobject-introspection

The gobject-introspection package is used to describe the APIs and collect them in a uniform, machine readable format.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-6.5 platform.

Install gobject-introspection by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild the API documentation.

Installed Programs: g-ir-compiler, g-ir-scanner, and g-ir-generate

Installed Libraries: libgirepository-1.0.{so,a} and libgirepository-everything-1.0.{so,a}

Installed Directories: /usr/{include/gobject-introspection-1.0,lib/{girepository-1.0, gobject-introspection/giscanner},share/gir-1.0}

g-ir-compiler	converts one or more GIR files into one or more typelib.
g-ir-scanner	is a tool which generates GIR XML files by parsing headers and introspecting GObject based libraries.
g-ir-generate	is a GIR generator, using the repository API.
`libgirepository-1.0.{so,a}`	provides an API to access to the typelib metadata.
`libgirepository-everything-1.0.{so,a}`	provides an API to access to the typelib metadata.

Last updated on 2009-10-25 07:17:33 +0000