Re: Glib

[Bob Rossi <bob brasko net>]

On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 08:40:35AM -0500, Ross McFarland wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 19:23, Bob Rossi wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am the author of an open source project called CGDB. It is a curses
> > based interface to the GDB. CGDB is written in C. I have been searching
> > the Internet for a good C library that contains useful abstract data
> > types.
> > 
> > Glib is the closest thing I could find. However, it seems that Glib
> > contains a lot more than what I need. g_threads, ...
> 
> i'm pretty sure you can get glib without gthreads, there are two
> different pkg-config files for them which include different libs:
> 
> $ pkg-config --libs glib-2.0
> -lglib-2.0  
> $ pkg-config --libs gthread-2.0
> -pthread -lgthread-2.0 -lglib-2.0  
> 
> gobject and gmodule are even in a seperate pc files.
> 
> $ pkg-config --libs gobject-2.0
> -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 
> $ pkg-config --libs gmodule
> -rdynamic -lgmodule -ldl -lglib  

I think part of the problem is pkg-config. I do not think that should be
necessary to have in order to build a minimal Glib. Why is it necessary?

> > It would be nice if Glib could be built into a small C library than only
> > had ADT's in it. This way, many small projects could take advantage of
> > these data types, without loosing portability. The goal of CGDB is to
> > port anywhere that GDB ports.
> 
> glib itself builds pretty quick and altogether wouldn't take much over a
> meg once installed on a system. i don't think they're be much reason to
> get it to build only pieces and parts since you can link against only
> the pieces you need. on top of that more systems than not are already
> going to have the full blown glib on them. 

I understand. I do think that Glib is not completly portable though. For
instance, I couldn't get pkg-config to compile "out of the box" on my
Cygwin machine. If small projects could "blackbox" out the way Glib is
used currently, and just get access to most of it, without knowing
anything about pkg-config or OS specific stuff, that would be really
cool.

BTW, does anyone on this list see my point? or am I in a world of my
own?

Thanks,
Bob Rossi