https://github.com/keybuk/libnih

NIH Utility Library
https://github.com/keybuk/libnih

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NIH Utility Library

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/keybuk/libnih
• Owner: keybuk
• License: gpl-2.0
• Created: 2013-05-14T16:02:25.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2021-11-20T02:02:46.000Z (about 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-07-31T22:56:08.754Z (4 months ago)
• Language: C
• Size: 31.3 MB
• Stars: 91
• Watchers: 15
• Forks: 28
• Open Issues: 2
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README
  • Changelog: ChangeLog
  • License: COPYING

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README

        
libnih is a light-weight "standard library" of C functions to ease the

development of other libraries and applications.

Its goals are:

 * despite its name, to _not_ reimplement anything found in the

   standard C library or any library normally found in /lib;

 * use standard C types and conventions where appropriate;

 * have a simple and consistent programming interface;

 * be useful to library developers without needing to be exposed in

   the library's API;

 * not hide implementation details or structure contents, we're all

   adults after all.

Dependencies

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The D-Bus messaging system is required to build the libnih-dbus library

and nih-dbus-tool utility.  In order to query the availability of the

external library, the pkg-config tool is used; and in order to parse

D-Bus introspection data, the expat XML parsing library will be used.

The recommended versions are:

	* pkg-config 0.22

	* D-Bus 1.2.16

	* expat 2.0.0

These should all be available from the current release of any modern

Linux distribution.

For detailed compilation and installation instructions see the INSTALL

file.  If you've checked libnih out from revision control, or want to

hack on libnih, see the HACKING file.

Cross-compiling

---------------

libnih uses the nih-dbus-tool utility it builds during its own build

process to generate further sources to be built.  When cross-compiling

this will fail because the built nih-dbus-tool will most likely not be

able to run on the build architecture.

This can be solved by building and installing nih-dbus-tool for the

build architecture first, then when performing the cross-compile, the

installed copy will be used instead.

If installed into a common system directory, this is automatic; if not,

you can pass the path of the nih-dbus-tool binary to the configure

script, e.g.:

	./configure --build=i486-linux-gnu --host=gnueabi-linux-arm \

		NIH_DBUS_TOOL=/cross/bin/nih-dbus-tool