Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 2013-05-22

Chapter 9. General Libraries

gobject-introspection-1.34.2

Introduction to GObject Introspection

The GObject Introspection is used to describe the program APIs and collect them in a uniform, machine readable format.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.3 platform.

Package Information

Required

GLib-2.34.3

Optional

Cairo-1.12.14 (required for the tests) and GTK-Doc-1.18

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gobject-introspection

Installation of GObject Introspection

Install GObject Introspection by running the following commands: 

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

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

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

Contents

Installed Program: g-ir-annotation-tool, g-ir-compiler, g-ir-generate and g-ir-scanner
Installed Libraries: libgirepository-1.0.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/gobject-introspection-1.0, /usr/lib/girepository-1.0, /usr/lib/gobject-introspection, /usr/share/gir-1.0, /usr/share/gobject-introspection-1.0 and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gi

Short Descriptions

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

provides an API to access to the typelib metadata.

Last updated on 2013-03-06 03:05:17 +0000