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<refentrytitle role="top_of_page" id="gi-overview.top_of_page">Introspection Overview</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
<refmiscinfo>GI Library</refmiscinfo>
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<refnamediv>
<refname>Overview</refname>
<refpurpose>General overview of introspection</refpurpose>
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<refsynopsisdiv>
The GObject-Introspection package contains of a few different parts:
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<para>The GIR XML format - an XML format describing the exported
C API including documentation
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The GTypelib format - a binary format optimized for fast disk access
and low memory usage
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>g-ir-scanner - parses C source code and gtk-doc comments and
generates GIR XML files
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>g-ir-compiler - compiles GIR XML files into typelibs
</para>
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<para>libgirepository - library to access typelib from C
</para>
</listitem>
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<para>A quick overview how the different components fits together:</para>
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