6.3. The GLib library
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## 6.3. The GLib library

GLib is used as a basic platform abstraction library. It doesn’t provide any direct GUI functionality.

To quote the GLib Reference Manual:

> GLib provides the core application building blocks for libraries and applications written in C. It provides the core object system used in GNOME, the main loop implementation, and a large set of utility functions for strings and common data structures.

GLib contains lots of useful things for platform independent development. See https://developer.gnome.org/glib/ and https://docs.gtk.org/glib/ for details about GLib.

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