GLib

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.

Additionally, GLib provides a run time type system for writing object oriented code in C, and a high level set of API for streaming input/output, file system access and enumeration, IPC, network programming, and system integration.

Components

GLib is composed by various libraries:

• glib: The basic, portable low level library providing data types, utilities, and main loop.
• gobject: The run time type system for object oriented programming.
• gmodule: A portable API for dynamically loading shared modules.
• gio: High and low level API for streaming I/O; file system access and enumeration; IPC; network programming; and system integration.

Documentation

• API reference for GLib
• API reference for GModule
• API reference for GObject
• API reference for GIO

Sources

The GLib source is available on GNOME’s GitLab instance at: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib

You can download the release archives from: https://download.gnome.org/sources/glib

Reporting issues

If you have an issue using GLib, open a topic on GNOME’s Discourse instance under the “glib” tag.

You can report bugs on the project’s GitLab issue tracker.