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

[Ronald <look@reply.to>]

Le Fri, 11 Feb 2005 18:02:36 -0500, Nathaniel McCallum a écrit :

>>>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?
> 

glibc2 already implement functions like iconv() by itself, that's why
there is no need for other libs, but for windows it's needed to provide
the missing functions.  

> Nathaniel