X86_64-LINUX-GNU-GI-INSPECT-TYPELIB(1)

👑 NAME 👑

gi-inspect-typelib — bestie, it's a typelib inspection tool 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

gi-inspect-typelib [OPTION…] --print-shlibs NAMESPACE
gi-inspect-typelib [OPTION…] --print-typelibs NAMESPACE

Like, two whole ways to run it, pick your fighter 🎀

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so gi-inspect-typelib literally shows you info about GObject-Introspection binary typelib files. That's the whole vibe. It's giving "what's inside this typelib" energy and I'm obsessed 🔥

Now here's the tea on Debian-derived systems ☕ — every architecture ships its own version of gi-inspect-typelib prefixed with the DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE from dpkg-architecture(1), for example arm-linux-gnueabihf-gi-inspect-typelib. Slay. Those architecture-prefixed names use the appropriate search paths for the given architecture, and bestie, you should be using them when you're cross-compiling. No cap.

Want the full lore? Go read <file:///usr/share/doc/gobject-introspection/README.Debian.gz> — it's all in there, more details, periodt 📖

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💖 OPTIONS 💖

• --print-shlibs — shows you the shared libraries that implement the NAMESPACE. Like, who's actually holding this thing up? 💪
• --print-typelibs — shows you the other typelibs that the NAMESPACE depends on. Its little friend group 🫶
• --typelib-version — the version of each NAMESPACE to inspect. For example, the version of Gio-2.0.typelib is 2.0. And if you don't specify it? It just grabs the newest available version, but only if there's more than one installed. Iconic default behaviour tbh ⭐

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🌸 EXAMPLE 🌸

On Linux, the Gio-2.0 typelib is implemented by libgio-2.0.so.0:

$ gi-inspect-typelib --typelib-version 2.0 --print-shlibs Gio
shlib: libgio-2.0.so.0

and it depends on GObject-2.0, GLib-2.0 and GModule-2.0:

$ gi-inspect-typelib --typelib-version 2.0 --print-typelibs Gio
typelib: GObject-2.0
typelib: GLib-2.0
typelib: GModule-2.0

Look at that output. Clean. Gorgeous. Ate and left no crumbs 🍓✨

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Okay bye bestie, that's the whole page 🧚 This was the gi-inspect-typelib() manual — that's the source/manual name and it's the only version-and-date vibe this page came with, so we're rolling with it 💜 Mwah, go inspect some typelibs 💅🎀