GLib

GLib
Basic data
developer	The GTK + team
Current  version	2.62.0 ( September 5, 2019 )
operating system	Unix , Windows , OS / 2 , BeOS
programming language	C.
category	Component library
License	LGPL ( Free Software )
German speaking	Yes
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GLib is a library written in C , which provides various functions that are normally only possible in C with a lot of effort. So that is object-oriented programming much easier and complex data structures such as binary trees and linked lists and treatment routines for dealing with threads , files , strings (also Unicode conversions), time functions, memory access provided, and more.

The feature set is available on many Unix-style platforms, Windows, OS / 2, and BeOS. The GLib was developed from GTK + , which uses its functions intensively. The name GLib is not to be confused with glibc , the free GNU implementation of the Standard C Library .

properties

GLib provides support for

• Basic types
• Standard macros
• Typecast
• Conversion of the byte order
• Memory reservation
• Warnings and Representations
• Message logging
• timer
• String functions
• Regular expressions
• Hook functions
• Lexical scanning
• Parsing an XML -Untermenge
• Dynamic loading of modules
• Threads
• Storage pools
• Automatic string completion
• Type system ( GType )
• Data structures
  • Memory chunks
  • Singly and doubly linked lists
  • Hash tables
  • Dynamically growing strings
  • String chunks
  • Fields
  • Balanced binary trees
  • N- ary trees
  • Quarks
  • Relations and Tuples
  • Caches

Part of the GLib project, but outsourced to its own library, is the GObject object system, which simplifies object-oriented programming in C and, among other things, also offers a signal system with which objects can notify themselves about events .

The GIO ( GLib Interfaces and Objects ) library is also part of the GLib project . GIO is the part of the GLib project based on GObject and offers file and data stream objects, network functionality , classes for data compression and conversion, interfaces to the interprocess communication system D-Bus and an interface for storing application settings.

Other libraries based on the GLib-GObject team include, for example, the GTK + widget toolkit , the GStreamer multimedia framework , the Clutter animation framework and the Soup HTTP library.

The programming language Vala uses GLib as the standard library and GObject as the object system.

Web links

• GLib reference for the current stable version
• GObject reference for the current stable version
• GIO reference for the current stable version

Individual evidence

1. ↑ gitlab.gnome.org . (accessed on September 22, 2019).