]> Introspection Overview 3 GI Library Overview General overview of introspection The GObject-Introspection package contains of a few different parts: The GIR XML format - an XML format describing the exported C API including documentation The GTypelib format - a binary format optimized for fast disk access and low memory usage g-ir-scanner - parses C source code and gtk-doc comments and generates GIR XML files g-ir-compiler - compiles GIR XML files into typelibs libgirepository - library to access typelib from C A quick overview how the different components fits together: