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post	Registering an enum type in GLib, glib-mkenums magic	2014-08-16T15:10:54Z	development c glib	/blog/2014/8/16/registering-an-enum-type-in-glib-glib-mkenums-magic	true	name email Gergely Polonkai gergely@polonkai.eu

In this post I said I will get through the GLib Makefiles to add an enum type to GLib in a more sophisticated way.

In my other project, SWE-GLib I already used this method. The following two rules in Makefile.am create gswe-enumtypes.h and gswe-enumtypes.c.

{% gist gergelypolonkai/1e2fdedb136de3ca67f0 Makefile %}

$(GLIB_MKENUMS) is set in configure with AC_PATH_PROG([GLIB_MKENUMS], [glib-mkenums]).

This approach requires the GNU Autotools (you can get rid of it by changing $(GLIB_MKENUMS) to the path to glib-mkenums binary), and two template files, one for the header and one for the code. $(gswe_enum_headers) contains a list of all the header files that have enum types defined throughout the project.

{% gist gergelypolonkai/1e2fdedb136de3ca67f0 gswe-enumtypes.h %}

{% gist gergelypolonkai/1e2fdedb136de3ca67f0 gswe-enumtypes.c %}