GLIB-COMPILE-RESOU(1)

NAME
glib-compile-resources - GLib resource compiler

SYNOPSIS

glib-compile-resources [OPTION...] {FILE}

DESCRIPTION

glib-compile-resources reads the resource description from FILE and the files that it references and creates a binary resource bundle that is suitable for use with the GResource API. The resulting bundle is then written out as-is, or as C source for linking into an application.

The XML resource files normally have the filename extension .gresource.xml. For a detailed description of the XML file format, see the GResource documentation.

OPTIONS

-h, --help
    Print help and exit

--version
    Print program version and exit

--target=TARGET
    Store the compiled resources in the file TARGET. If not specified a filename based on the FILE basename is used.

--sourcedir=DIRECTORY
    The files referenced in FILE are loaded from this directory. If not specified, the current directory is used.

--generate
    Write the output file in the format selected for by its filename extension:

    .c
        C source

    .h
        C header

    .gresource
        resource bundle

--generate-source
    Instead of a writing the resource bundle in binary form create a C source file that contains the resource bundle. This can then be compiled into an application for easy access.

--generate-header
    Generate a header file for use with C code generated by --generate-source.

--generate-dependencies
    Prints the list of files that the resource bundle references to standard output. This can be used to track dependencies in the build system. For example, the following make rule would mark test.gresource as depending on all the files that test.gresource.xml includes, so that is is automatically rebuilt if any of them change:

        test.gresource: test.gresource.xml $(shell $(GLIB_COMPILE_RESOURCES) --generate-dependencies test.gresource.xml)

    Note that this may or may not be portable to non-GNU make.

    Also see --dependency-file.

--c-name
    Specify the prefix used for the C identifiers in the code generated by --generate-source and --generate-header.

--manual-register
    By default code generated by --generate-source uses automatic initialization of the resource. This works on most systems by using the compiler support for constructors. However, some (uncommon) compilers may not support this, you can then specify --manual-register, which will generate custom register and unregister functions that your code can manually call at initialization and uninitialization time.

--internal
    By default code generated by --generate-source declares all initialization functions as extern. So they are exported unless this is prevented by a link script or other means. Since libraries usually want to use the functions only internally it can be more useful to declare them as G_GNUC_INTERNAL which is what --internal does.

--external-data
    By default code generated by --generate-source embeds the resource data as a string literal. When --external-data is given, the data is only declared in the generated C file, and the data has to be linked externally.

--dependency-file=FILE
    Write dependencies in the same style as gcc -M -MF to the given file. If FILE is -, the dependencies are written to the standard output. Unlike --generate-dependencies, this option can be combined with other --generate options to generate dependencies as a side-effect of generating sources.

--generate-phony-targets
    When creating a dependency file with --dependency-file include phony targets in the same style as gcc -MP. This would typically be used with make.

ENVIRONMENT

XMLLINT
    The full path to the xmllint executable. This is used to preprocess resources with the xml-stripblanks preprocessing option. If this environment variable is not set, xmllint is searched for in the PATH.

GDK_PIXBUF_PIXDATA
    The full path to the gdk-pixbuf-pixdata executable. This is used to preprocess resources with the to-pixdata preprocessing option. If this environment variable is not set, gdk-pixbuf-pixdata is searched for in the PATH.

JSON_GLIB_FORMAT
    The full path to the json-glib-format executable. This is used to preprocess resources with the json-stripblanks preprocessing option. If this environment variable is not set, json-glib-format is searched for in the PATH.