Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Just a thought (high level API)

[Nathaniel McCallum <npmccallum@gentoo.org>]

Ronald wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Le Fri, 11 Feb 2005 10:35:36 -0500, Nathaniel McCallum a écrit :
> 
> 
>>On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 10:07 -0500, Jim C. Brown wrote:
>>
>>>glib is mainly a library used for portability (such as a cross platform
>>>libdl interface or platform independent fixed-size types) and can be used
>>>w/o having to bring in all the code used for a graphical interface.
>>
>>It also provides all kind of data types (linked lists, autosizing
>>vectors), error reporting (like exceptions), main loops, os independant
>>threading, queues, message logging, and all kinds of other really useful
>>stuff that most people just impliment in C in most projects anyway. glib
>>actually has nothing to do with GTK other than the fact that several of
>>the same people work on it and GTK uses glib.  glib is used in all kinds
>>of other utilities and is usually part of a base linux system.  Its
>>generally a dependency that most people have.  In addition, it saves a lot
>>of #ifdef _WIN32 type stuff, as it is platform independant.
>>
>>Nathaniel
> 
> 
>>From my point of view having a dependancy on glib may cause much trouble
> for specific build, windows one to be precise. glib introduce a few other
> dependancies like libintl, libiconv and (not sure) libxml2, so even when
> building in native environment you'll have to have a lot of prerequisite
> to be able to build qemu.

glib has no dependencies on my system other than glibc.  Is that a 
windows specific dependency?

Nathaniel