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gobject-introspection generates metadata from source code, stores it as XML files in $PREFIX/share/gir-1.0 and as binary files in $PREFIX/lib/girepository-1.0
by floatboth 8y ago
gobject-introspection generates metadata from source code, stores it as XML files in $PREFIX/share/gir-1.0 and as binary files in $PREFIX/lib/girepository-1.0
And yeah, seems like strip is one of the reasons why they don't store it in the ELF. But also: cross-platform compatibility (GTK does support Windows and macOS).