GLib and GOBject are 2 separate C libraries from which the GTK+ GUI toolkit is built (among other things). Since C is a lower-level language, GLib provides a lot of basic functionality like those utilities similar to what is built-in with Python (file input/output, string manipulation, memory management, threading, etc.). Since C is not an … Read more
Start with Glib, its quite easy and well described here: Glib Reference Manual GObject is mostly a lot of boilerplate code to achieve object orientation. Try out the “maman bar” examples found in the GObject Reference Manual For me, GStreamer took the most time to understand. The documentation is good but there is alot to … Read more
You’re probably missing the development package. The package name varies by distribution, but it’s the one containing /usr/lib/pkgconfig/gobject-introspection-1.0.pc (or /usr/lib64/pkgconfig/gobject-introspection-1.0.pc for some 64-bit distros): Fedora, CentOS, RHEL, etc.: gobject-introspection-devel Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, etc.: libgirepository1.0-dev Arch: gobject-introspection FreeBSD: gobject-introspection Cygwin: libgirepository1.0-devel msys2: mingw-w64-x86_64-gobject-introspection and/or mingw-w64-i686-gobject-introspection