What exactly are GLib and GObject?

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

pygobject-2.28.6 won’t configure: No package ‘gobject-introspection-1.0’ found, how do I resolve?

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