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@@ -13,13 +13,23 @@ Simple install procedure Requirements ============ +GLib-2.0 requires pkg-config, which is tool for tracking the +compilation flags needed for libraries. (For each library, a small .pc +text file is installed in a standard location that contains the +compilation flags needed for that library along with version number +information.) Information about pkg-config can be found at: + + http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig/ + +GNU make (http://www.gnu.org/software/make) is also recommended. + In order to implement conversions between character sets, GLib requires an implementation of the standard iconv() routine. Most modern systems will have a suitable implementation, however many older systems lack an iconv() implementation. On such systems, you must install the libiconv library. This can be found at: - http://clisp.cons.org/~haible/packages-libiconv.html + http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/ If your system has an iconv implementation but you want to use libiconv instead, you can pass the --with-libiconv option to @@ -30,6 +40,13 @@ search path (for instance, in /usr/local/), but don't enable it, you will get an error while compiling GTK+ because the iconv.h that libiconv installs hides the system iconv. +Finally, for message catalog handling, GTK+ requires an implementation +of gettext(). If your system doesn't provide this functionality, +you should use the libintl library from the GNU gettext package, +available from: + + http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/ + The Nitty-Gritty ================ @@ -104,14 +121,18 @@ use of these flags is not tested. One particular detail to note, is that the architecture-dependent include file glibconfig.h is installed in: - $exec_pref/lib/glib/include/ + $exec_prefix/lib/glib/include/ if you have a version in $prefix/include, this is out of date and should be deleted. -A shell script glib-config is created during the configure -process, and installed in the bin/ directory -($exec_prefix/bin). This is used to determine the location of glib -when building applications. If you move glib after installation, -it will be necessary to edit this file. +.pc files for the various libraries are installed in +$exec_prefix/lib/pkgconfig to provide information when compiling +other packages that depend on GTK+. If you set PKG_CONFIG_PATH +so that it points to this directory, then you can get the +correct include flags and library flags for compiling a GLib +application with: + + pkg-config --cflags glib-2.0 + pkg-config --libs glib-2.0 |