2 The purpose of eglib is to be an X11-licensed subset of glib that can
3 be used with Mono when the Mono runtime is explicitly relicensed under
4 a different license by Novell.
6 The implementation is done from the public documentation available here:
8 http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/
10 Currently this is only being built standalone, use:
12 ./autogen.sh --prefix=/tmp/test
14 Currently all the definitions go into a single file: glib.h, there are
15 no separate files, please try to follow the convetions in the source code
19 Please read the README in tests/
21 * Plans: short and long term.
23 The short term plans for eglib is to allow Mono to optionally
24 build with it instead of using glib, gmodule and gthread, but
25 the default build will continue to be done against glib 2.0.
27 Our first target is to make this work with Linux, other
28 platforms will follow after that.
30 In the long-term (Mono 2.0) we are considering dropping glib
31 as a dependency, considering that Mono requires a modern Unix
32 system to run anyways (for its thread support) it would allow
33 us to fix some of the glib API limitations we have to live
34 with (explicit thread support for example), rework the API to
35 use types from stdint.h and we would be able to drop three
36 external shared libraries.
38 This would reduce memory usage for the handful of routines
39 that we use from glib, dynamic linker overhead for those and
40 would allow us to tune the implementation to Mono's needs.