Re: Top-level include files

["Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 cornell edu>]

Cosimo Cecchi wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 09:17 -0500, Morten Welinder wrote:
>
> > So: what header files are meant to be included by applications?  Where is this
> > information documented?
>
> AFAIK it's not clearly documented anywhere, but in addition to the
> toplevel headers, you should always include <gdk/gdkkeysyms.h>,
> <glib/gi18n.h>, <glib/gi18n-lib.h> and <glib/gstdio.h> if the function
> contained in these headers are required by the application/library
> including them.
>
> I don't know the reason why these are not included in the toplevel
> header though

I believe gi18n.h and gi18n-lib.h are mutually exclusive and shouldn't
both be included.

I think a couple headers (maybe gstrfuncs.h and gstdio.h) require the
app developer to (possibly) include some system headers, like string.h
or fcntl.h, so they aren't included in the main glib.h header.

	-brian



 (and I'm also not sure whether there are more headers that
> should be included separately).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Cosimo
>
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