This is glibmm, a C++ API for parts of glib that are useful for C++. See http://www.gtkmm.org # Building Whenever possible, you should use the official binary packages approved by the supplier of your operating system, such as your Linux distribution. ## Building on Windows See README.win32 ## Building from a release tarball Extract the tarball and go to the extracted directory: $ tar xf glibmm-@GLIBMM_VERSION@.tar.xz $ cd glibmm-@GLIBMM_VERSION@ It's easiest to build with Meson, if the tarball was made with Meson, and to build with Autotools, if the tarball was made with Autotools. Then you don't have to use maintainer-mode. How do you know how the tarball was made? If it was made with Meson, it contains files in untracked/glib/glibmm/, untracked/gio/giomm/ and other subdirectories of untracked/. ### Building from a tarball with Meson Don't call the builddir 'build'. There is a directory called 'build' with files used by Autotools. $ meson --prefix /some_directory --libdir lib your_builddir . $ cd your_builddir If the tarball was made with Autotools, you must enable maintainer-mode: $ meson configure -Dmaintainer-mode=true Then, regardless of how the tarball was made: $ ninja $ ninja install You can run the tests like so: $ ninja test ### Building from a tarball with Autotools If the tarball was made with Autotools: $ ./configure --prefix=/some_directory If the tarball was made with Meson, you must enable maintainer-mode: $ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/some_directory Then, regardless of how the tarball was made: $ make $ make install You can build the examples and tests, and run the tests, like so: $ make check ## Building from git Building from git can be difficult so you should prefer building from a release tarball unless you need to work on the glibmm code itself. jhbuild can be a good help https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/jhbuild https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Jhbuild ### Building from git with Meson Maintainer-mode is enabled by default when you build from a git clone. Don't call the builddir 'build'. There is a directory called 'build' with files used by Autotools. $ meson --prefix /some_directory --libdir lib your_builddir . $ cd your_builddir $ ninja $ ninja install You can run the tests like so: $ ninja test You can create a tarball like so: $ ninja dist ### Building from git with Autotools $ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/some_directory $ make $ make install You can build the examples and tests, and run the tests, like so: $ make check You can create a tarball like so: $ make distcheck or $ make dist