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Installation

Weitere Installationsbefehle

macOS

Homebrewverifiziert · 100%
brew install gobject-introspection

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsverifiziert · 94%
sudo port install gobject-introspection

MacPorts ports tree · gnome/gobject-introspection/Portfile · Quelle: api.github.com

Linux

Alpine Linux apkverifiziert · 92%
sudo apk add gobject-introspection

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · gobject-introspection · Quelle: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org

Debian aptverifiziert · 92%
sudo apt install gobject-introspection

Debian stable package indexes · gobject-introspection · Quelle: deb.debian.org

Fedora dnfverifiziert · 92%
sudo dnf install gobject-introspection

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · gobject-introspection · Quelle: dl.fedoraproject.org

Nixverifiziert · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#gobject-introspection

nixpkgs package indexes · gobject-introspection · Quelle: raw.githubusercontent.com

Arch Linux pacmanverifiziert · 92%
sudo pacman -S gobject-introspection

Arch Linux sync databases · gobject-introspection · Quelle: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com

openSUSE zypperverifiziert · 92%
sudo zypper install gobject-introspection

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · gobject-introspection · Quelle: download.opensuse.org

Überblick

Paketzusammenfassung

Generate introspection data for GObject libraries

Befehle und Aliase

  • g-ir-annotation-tool
  • g-ir-compiler
  • g-ir-doc-tool
  • g-ir-generate
  • g-ir-inspect
  • g-ir-scanner

Verlauf

Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

GObject Introspection is GNOME infrastructure that turns C libraries using GObject conventions into machine-readable metadata. It provides GIR XML, compiled typelib files, scanner/compiler tools, and libgirepository so higher-level language bindings can call C APIs without each binding maintaining its own handwritten metadata.

For package maintainers it is not just another developer tool. It is build-time and runtime plumbing that many GNOME-adjacent packages need so Python, JavaScript, Vala, Perl, Ruby, Lua, Haskell, and other bindings can consume the same library metadata.

Projektgeschichte

The project grew out of GNOME's long-standing need to share binding metadata instead of duplicating hand-maintained fixes across language bindings. The official goals page frames the work as a bridge between low-level C libraries and higher-level runtimes, and as a way to keep binding metadata inside the libraries through annotations.

GNOME's source archive records the 0.5.0 tarball on September 1, 2008. By the 1.30.0 release on September 20, 2011, the project had entered the 1.x line used alongside the GNOME 3 era. The documentation describes the core toolchain as g-ir-scanner, g-ir-compiler, g-ir-generate, g-ir-annotation-tool, GIR XML, typelib files, and libgirepository.

Adoptionsgeschichte

GObject Introspection became a shared foundation for language bindings rather than a user-facing app. The official users page lists bindings and consumers including Vala, Genie, PyGObject, GTK-Perl/Introspection, JGIR, GJS, Seed, GirFFI, Ruby-GNOME, Guile GI, lgi, node-gir, go-gir, haskell-gi, Common Lisp, Free Pascal, Prolog, Harbour, C++, and Crystal projects.

Distribution packaging reflects that infrastructure role. Homebrew packages it as gobject-introspection with dependencies on GLib, Cairo, pkgconf, and Python, while the input package facts map it across multiple Unix packaging systems under names such as gobject-introspection, gir1.2-freedesktop, and girepository-1_0.

Wie es verwendet wird

Library authors enable introspection during the build, annotate APIs, and generate GIR files and typelibs. Binding authors and runtime libraries then consume those artifacts to expose the same C APIs in languages such as Python via PyGObject or JavaScript via GJS.

Package builders care about it because it can affect cross-compilation, build ordering, and split packages: GIR development metadata and compiled typelibs often need to land in different package outputs. The official documentation includes dedicated build-system integration material for Meson and Autotools, and the changelog records build-system transitions such as the end of autotools support after the 1.60 line and the later drop of autotools in the 1.61 development series.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

GObject Introspection is one of the packages that explains why GNOME stacks look the way they do in package managers: many applications do not depend on it directly for a command-line interface, but their language bindings, generated metadata, and typelibs depend on it being present and correctly split.

It is also a recurring example of packaging complexity caused by generated ABI metadata. The same package participates in compiler-like scanning, documentation, runtime reflection, language bindings, and cross-build work, so small changes in it can ripple through GTK, GStreamer, GJS, PyGObject, and desktop application builds.

Zeitleiste

  • 2008-09-01: GNOME source archive records gobject-introspection 0.5.0
  • 2011-09-20: GNOME source archive records gobject-introspection 1.30.0
  • 2018-02-08: GNOME GitLab project record created during GNOME's GitLab-hosted era
  • 2019-03-10: 1.60.0 changelog notes the final release supporting autotools
  • 2019-08-07: 1.61.1 changelog notes the autotools build system was dropped
  • 2025-09-13: 1.86.0 appears in the official changelog and GNOME source archive

Related projects

  • GLib and GObject are the underlying object-system layer whose APIs are described by introspection metadata.
  • PyGObject, GJS, Vala, Ruby-GNOME, lgi, haskell-gi, and other bindings are documented users of the introspection repository.
  • GTK and GStreamer are common examples of GObject-based libraries whose bindings and applications rely on introspection data in GNOME-oriented distributions.

Sicherheitslage

Noch keine Protected-Tool-Abdeckung gefunden

Für gobject-introspection wurde kein passendes lokales Secret-Handling-Manifest gefunden. Nucleus-Paketmetadaten bleiben hier veröffentlicht, damit künftige Abdeckung eine stabile Paket-URL hat.

Installationsverhalten

  • In den Formelmetadaten ist kein Homebrew-Post-install-Hook erfasst.
  • Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten sind für 6 Plattformziele verfügbar.
  • Installiert mit 4 Laufzeitabhängigkeiten.
  • Build-Metadaten listen 3 Build-Abhängigkeiten.

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Executables

Installierte Executables

BefehlArtSichtbarkeitHinweis
g-ir-annotation-toolcliglobales Executable
g-ir-compilercliglobales Executable
g-ir-doc-toolcliglobales Executable
g-ir-generatecliglobales Executable
g-ir-inspectcliglobales Executable
g-ir-scannercliglobales Executable

Aktualität

Version und Aktualität

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Seite generiert2026-07-10
Manager-Version1.86.0
Manager aktualisiert2026-06-08
lokale DatenOK
Upstreamnot checked
neueste erkannte Versionnicht erkannt

https://gi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Installationsmetadaten

Paketmetadaten

Paketschlüsselbrew:gobject-introspection
Version1.86.0
PaketmanagerHomebrew
Paketmanager-Seitehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/gobject-introspection
Homepagehttps://gi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Repositoryhttps://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gobject-introspection
Upstream-Dokumentationhttps://gi.readthedocs.io/en/latest
LizenzGPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.0-or-later AND MIT
Quellarchivhttps://download.gnome.org/sources/gobject-introspection/1.86/gobject-introspection-1.86.0.tar.xz
Zuletzt aktualisiert2026-06-08T19:08:53-04:00
Pulseupdated
Abhängigkeitencairo, glib, pkgconf, python@3.14
Build-Abhängigkeitenbison, meson, ninja
Von macOS bereitgestellte Bibliothekenlibffi
Bottleverfügbar (auf arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnicht definiert
Dienstkeiner deklariert

Registry-Fakten

Details aus der Quelldatenbank

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Namegobject-introspection
Version Scheme0
Revision2
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • stable

Source-Datenbank-Treffer

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Treffer stammen aus externen Paketmanager-Indizes und bleiben von lokalen Automic-Vault-Paketlinks getrennt.

Debian apt95%

gir1.2-freedesktop 1.84.0-1

Introspection data for some FreeDesktop components

https://wiki.gnome.org/GObjectIntrospection

sudo apt install gir1.2-freedesktop
  • Section: introspection
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: gobject-introspection
  • 2 Abhängigkeiten
  • 12 stellt bereit
  • normalized package name match
  • Abgeglichen nach: Gobject Introspection
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: gir1.2-freedesktop from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Debian apt95%

gir1.2-freedesktop-dev 1.84.0-1

GIR XML for some FreeDesktop components

https://wiki.gnome.org/GObjectIntrospection

sudo apt install gir1.2-freedesktop-dev
  • Section: libdevel
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: gobject-introspection
  • 2 Abhängigkeiten
  • 12 stellt bereit
  • normalized package name match
  • Abgeglichen nach: Gobject Introspection
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: gir1.2-freedesktop-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Debian apt95%

gir1.2-girepository-2.0 1.84.0-1

Introspection data for GIRepository library

https://wiki.gnome.org/GObjectIntrospection

sudo apt install gir1.2-girepository-2.0
  • Section: introspection
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: gobject-introspection
  • 2 Abhängigkeiten
  • normalized package name match
  • Abgeglichen nach: Gobject Introspection
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: gir1.2-girepository-2.0 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Debian apt95%

gir1.2-girepository-2.0-dev 1.84.0-1

GIR XML for GIRepository library

https://wiki.gnome.org/GObjectIntrospection

sudo apt install gir1.2-girepository-2.0-dev
  • Section: libdevel
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: gobject-introspection
  • 2 Abhängigkeiten
  • normalized package name match
  • Abgeglichen nach: Gobject Introspection
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: gir1.2-girepository-2.0-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Debian apt95%

gobject-introspection 1.84.0-1

Generate interface introspection data for GObject libraries

https://wiki.gnome.org/GObjectIntrospection

sudo apt install gobject-introspection
  • Section: devel
  • Architecture: amd64
  • 14 Abhängigkeiten
  • 1 stellt bereit
  • normalized package name match
  • Abgeglichen nach: Gobject Introspection
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: gobject-introspection from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Debian apt95%

gobject-introspection-bin 1.84.0-1

Executables for gobject-introspection

https://wiki.gnome.org/GObjectIntrospection

sudo apt install gobject-introspection-bin
  • Section: devel
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: gobject-introspection
  • 11 Abhängigkeiten
  • 1 stellt bereit
  • normalized package name match
  • Abgeglichen nach: Gobject Introspection
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: gobject-introspection-bin from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Debian apt95%

libgirepository-1.0-1 1.84.0-1

Library for handling GObject introspection data (runtime library)

https://wiki.gnome.org/GObjectIntrospection

sudo apt install libgirepository-1.0-1
  • Section: libs
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: gobject-introspection
  • 3 Abhängigkeiten
  • 1 stellt bereit
  • normalized package name match
  • Abgeglichen nach: Gobject Introspection
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: libgirepository-1.0-1 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Debian apt95%

libgirepository-1.0-dev 1.84.0-1

Library for handling GObject introspection data (development files)

https://wiki.gnome.org/GObjectIntrospection

sudo apt install libgirepository-1.0-dev
  • Section: libdevel
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: gobject-introspection
  • 4 Abhängigkeiten
  • 1 optionale Abhängigkeiten
  • normalized package name match
  • Abgeglichen nach: Gobject Introspection
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: libgirepository-1.0-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Debian apt95%

libgirepository1.0-dev 1.84.0-1

Library for handling GObject introspection data (complete development files)

https://wiki.gnome.org/GObjectIntrospection

sudo apt install libgirepository1.0-dev
  • Section: libdevel
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: gobject-introspection
  • 11 Abhängigkeiten
  • 1 optionale Abhängigkeiten
  • normalized package name match
  • Abgeglichen nach: Gobject Introspection
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: libgirepository1.0-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Debian apt95%

libgirepository1.0-doc 1.84.0-1

Library for handling GObject introspection data (documentation)

https://wiki.gnome.org/GObjectIntrospection

sudo apt install libgirepository1.0-doc
  • Section: doc
  • Architecture: all
  • Source Package: gobject-introspection
  • 1 optionale Abhängigkeiten
  • normalized package name match
  • Abgeglichen nach: Gobject Introspection
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: libgirepository1.0-doc from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Nix95%

gobject-introspection

nix profile install nixpkgs#gobject-introspection
  • normalized package name match
  • Abgeglichen nach: Gobject Introspection
nixpkgs package indexes · raw.githubusercontent.com · nixpkgs package indexes: gobject-introspection from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
Ubuntu apt95%

gir1.2-freedesktop 1.80.1-1

Introspection data for some FreeDesktop components

https://wiki.gnome.org/GObjectIntrospection

sudo apt install gir1.2-freedesktop
  • Section: introspection
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: gobject-introspection
  • 2 Abhängigkeiten
  • 12 stellt bereit
  • normalized package name match
  • Abgeglichen nach: Gobject Introspection
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: gir1.2-freedesktop from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
Ubuntu apt95%

gir1.2-freedesktop-dev 1.80.1-1

GIR XML for some FreeDesktop components

https://wiki.gnome.org/GObjectIntrospection

sudo apt install gir1.2-freedesktop-dev
  • Section: libdevel
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: gobject-introspection
  • 2 Abhängigkeiten
  • 12 stellt bereit
  • normalized package name match
  • Abgeglichen nach: Gobject Introspection
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: gir1.2-freedesktop-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
Ubuntu apt95%

gir1.2-girepository-2.0 1.80.1-1

Introspection data for GIRepository library

https://wiki.gnome.org/GObjectIntrospection

sudo apt install gir1.2-girepository-2.0
  • Section: introspection
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: gobject-introspection
  • 2 Abhängigkeiten
  • normalized package name match
  • Abgeglichen nach: Gobject Introspection
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: gir1.2-girepository-2.0 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
Ubuntu apt95%

gir1.2-girepository-2.0-dev 1.80.1-1

GIR XML for GIRepository library

https://wiki.gnome.org/GObjectIntrospection

sudo apt install gir1.2-girepository-2.0-dev
  • Section: libdevel
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: gobject-introspection
  • 2 Abhängigkeiten
  • normalized package name match
  • Abgeglichen nach: Gobject Introspection
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: gir1.2-girepository-2.0-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
Ubuntu apt95%

gobject-introspection 1.80.1-1

Generate interface introspection data for GObject libraries

https://wiki.gnome.org/GObjectIntrospection

sudo apt install gobject-introspection
  • Section: devel
  • Architecture: amd64
  • 14 Abhängigkeiten
  • 1 stellt bereit
  • normalized package name match
  • Abgeglichen nach: Gobject Introspection
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: gobject-introspection from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz

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