Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/11] Add hard build dependency on glib

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> wrote:
> GLib is an extremely common library that has a portable thread implementation
> along with tons of other goodies.
>
> GLib and GObject have a fantastic amount of infrastructure we can leverage in
> QEMU including an object oriented programming infrastructure.
>
> Short term, it has a very nice thread pool implementation that we could 
> leverage
> in something like virtio-9p.  It also has a test harness implementation that
> this series will use.
>
> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <address@hidden>
> ---
>  Makefile        |    2 ++
>  Makefile.objs   |    2 ++
>  Makefile.target |    1 +
>  configure       |   13 +++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

Yes, please.  I'd like to use glib to make simpletrace portable.

To paraphrase the saying about non-trivial C programs and LISP interpreters:

"In every cross-platform C program there is a glib."

Stefan