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

[Ronald <look@reply.to>]

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.