1If you want to hack on the GLib project, you'll need to have the 2following packages installed: 3 4 - Meson 0.48.0 5 - GNU gettext 0.10.40 6 - pkg-config 0.16 7 - gtk-doc 8 - libffi 3.0.0 9 10To compile a Git version of glib on your system, you will need to take 11several steps to setup the tree for compilation. You can do all these 12steps at once by running: 13 14 checkout/glib# meson _build 15 16For information about submitting patches see the CONTRIBUTING.md file. For 17information about major design decisions, see the README.rationale file. 18