Table of Contents
- GLib Overview
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Compiling the GLib package -
How to compile GLib itself
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Cross-compiling the GLib package -
How to cross-compile GLib
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Compiling GLib Applications -
How to compile your GLib application
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Running GLib Applications -
How to run and debug your GLib application
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Changes to GLib -
Incompatible changes made between successing versions of GLib
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Mailing lists and bug reports -
Getting help with GLib
- GLib Fundamentals
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Version Information - Variables and functions to check the GLib version
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Basic Types - standard GLib types, defined for ease-of-use and portability.
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Limits of Basic Types - portable method of determining the limits of the standard types.
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Standard Macros - commonly-used macros.
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Type Conversion Macros -
portably storing integers in pointer variables.
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Byte Order Macros - a portable way to convert between different byte orders.
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Numerical Definitions - mathematical constants, and floating point decomposition.
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Miscellaneous Macros - specialized macros which are not used often.
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Atomic Operations - basic atomic integer and pointer operations
- GLib Core Application Support
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The Main Event Loop - manages all available sources of events.
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Threads -
thread abstraction; including threads, different mutexes, conditions
and thread private data.
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Thread Pools - pools of threads to execute work concurrently.
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Asynchronous Queues - asynchronous communication between threads.
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Dynamic Loading of Modules - portable method for dynamically loading 'plug-ins'.
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Memory Allocation - general memory-handling.
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IO Channels - portable support for using files, pipes and sockets.
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Error Reporting - a system for reporting errors.
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Message Output and Debugging Functions - functions to output messages and help debug applications.
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Message Logging - versatile support for logging messages with different levels of importance.
- GLib Utilities
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String Utility Functions - various string-related functions.
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Character Set Conversion - convert strings between different character sets using iconv().
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Unicode Manipulation - functions operating on Unicode characters and UTF-8 strings.
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Base64 Encoding - encodes and decodes data in Base64 format
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Internationalization - gettext support macros.
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Date and Time Functions - calendrical calculations and miscellaneous time stuff.
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Random Numbers - pseudo-random number generator.
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Hook Functions - support for manipulating lists of hook functions.
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Miscellaneous Utility Functions - a selection of portable utility functions.
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Lexical Scanner - a general purpose lexical scanner.
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Automatic String Completion - support for automatic completion using a group of target strings.
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Timers -
keep track of elapsed time.
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Spawning Processes - process launching with fork()/exec().
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File Utilities - various file-related functions.
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Shell-related Utilities - shell-like commandline handling.
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Commandline option parser - parses commandline options
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Glob-style pattern matching - matches strings against patterns containing '*' (wildcard) and '?' (joker).
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Simple XML Subset Parser - parses a subset of XML.
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Key-value file parser - parses .ini-like config files
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Bookmark file parser - parses files containing bookmarks
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Windows Compatibility Functions - UNIX emulation on Windows.
- GLib Data Types
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Memory Slices - efficient way to allocate groups of equal-sized chunks of memory.
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Memory Chunks - deprecated way to allocate groups of equal-sized chunks of memory.
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Doubly-Linked Lists - linked lists containing integer values or pointers to data, with the ability
to iterate over the list in both directions.
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Singly-Linked Lists - linked lists containing integer values or pointers to data, limited to
iterating over the list in one direction.
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Double-ended Queues - double-ended queue data structure.
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Trash Stacks - maintain a stack of unused allocated memory chunks.
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Hash Tables - associations between keys and values so that given a key the value
can be found quickly.
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Strings - text buffers which grow automatically as text is added.
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String Chunks - efficient storage of groups of strings.
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Arrays - arrays of arbitrary elements which grow automatically as elements are added.
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Pointer Arrays - arrays of pointers to any type of data, which grow automatically as new
elements are added.
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Byte Arrays - arrays of bytes, which grow automatically as elements are added.
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Balanced Binary Trees - a sorted collection of key/value pairs optimized for searching
and traversing in order.
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N-ary Trees - trees of data with any number of branches.
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Quarks - a 2-way association between a string and a unique integer identifier.
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Keyed Data Lists - lists of data elements which are accessible by a string or GQuark identifier.
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Datasets - associate groups of data elements with particular memory locations.
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Relations and Tuples - tables of data which can be indexed on any number of fields.
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Caches - caches allow sharing of complex data structures to save resources.
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Memory Allocators - deprecated way to allocate chunks of memory for GList, GSList and GNode.
- GLib Tools
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glib-gettextize - gettext internationalization utility
- Index
- Index of deprecated symbols
- Index of new symbols in 2.2
- Index of new symbols in 2.4
- Index of new symbols in 2.6
- Index of new symbols in 2.8
- Index of new symbols in 2.10
- Index of new symbols in 2.12
- Index of new symbols in 2.14