- 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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Regular expression syntax
Syntax and semantics of the regular expressions supported by GRegex
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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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Data Checksums Computes the checksum for data
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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
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File Utilities various file-related functions
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URI Functions URI 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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Perl-compatible regular expressions matches strings against regular expressions
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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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Testing a test framework
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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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Sequences scalable lists
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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
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gtester test running utility
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gtester-report test report formatting 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
- Index of new symbols in 2.16
- Index of new symbols in 2.18
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