GLib Reference Manual
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GLib Overview

Table of Contents
Compiling the GLib package -- How to compile GLib itself
Compiling GLib Applications -- How to compile your GLib application
Running GLib Applications -- How to run and debug your GLib application
Changes from 1.0 to 2.0 -- Incompatible changes made between version 1.0 and version 2.0
Mailing lists and bug reports -- Getting help with GLib

GLib is a general-purpose utility library, which provides many useful data types, macros, type conversions, string utilities, file utilities, a main loop abstraction, and so on. It works on many UNIX-like platforms, Windows, OS/2 and BeOS. GLib is released under the GNU Library General Public License (GNU LGPL).

GLib depends on the following:

iconv(): In order to implement conversions between character sets, GLib requires an implementation of the standard iconv() routine. Most modern systems will have a suitable implementation, however many older systems lack an iconv() implementation. On such systems, you must install the libiconv library.
a thread implementation: The thread support in GLib can be based upon several native thread implementations, e.g. POSIX threads, DCE threads or Solaris threads.