GLib is a general-purpose, portable utility library, which provides many useful data types, macros, type conversions, string utilities, file utilities, a mainloop abstraction, and so on.

On Windows the GLib file name encoding is UTF-8. Note that the Microsoft C library does not use UTF-8, but has separate APIs for current system code page and wide characters (UTF-16). The GLib wrappers call the wide character API if present (on modern Windows systems), otherwise convert to/from the system code page. POSIX Directory Wrappers

GLib is a general-purpose, portable utility library, which provides many useful generic data types, macros, type conversions, string utilities, file utilities, a main loop abstraction, and so on.

GLib 库是由 GNOME 基金会维护的一个由纯 C 语言编写的跨平台开源库。该库又可以分为四个部分：提供面向对象编程支持的 GObject、提供可移植动态加载模块（动态链接库）支持的 GModule、提供输入输出支持的 Gio 与提供基础数据结构和工具的 GLib。

Low-level core library that forms the basis for projects such as GTK and GNOME.

To build GLib without extended attribute support, use the -Dxattr=false option. The optional SELinux support in GIO requires libselinux. To build GLib without SELinux support, use the -Dselinux=disabled option. The optional support for DTrace requires the sys/sdt.h header, which is provided by SystemTap on Linux.

GLib 和 gobject-introspection 之间存在依赖关系循环。 这可以通过先使用 -Dintrospection=disabled 构建 GLib，然后针对此 GLib 副本构建 gobject-introspection，然后使用 -Dintrospection=enabled 针对新的 gobject-introspection 重新构建 GLib 来打破这种关系。

2024年4月27日 · GLib 是一个提供了很多实用定义和函数的底层程序库，包括基本类型及其限定的定义、标准宏、类型转化、字节次序、内存分配、警告与断言、 消息日志、计时器、字符工具、钩子函数、词法扫描器、模块的动态加载，以及自动的字符串补齐。

GLib is a general-purpose utility library, which provides many useful data types, macros, type conversions, string utilities, file utilities, a mainloop abstraction, and so on. It works on many UNIX-like platforms, as well as Windows and OS X. GLib is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License (GNU LGPL).

GLib is the low-level core library that forms the basis for projects such as GTK and GNOME. It provides data structure handling for C, portability wrappers, and interfaces for such runtime functionality as an event loop, threads, dynamic loading, and an object system. The official download locations are: https://download.gnome.org/sources/glib