Method

GIRepositoryRepositoryget_typelib_path

since: 2.80

Declaration [src] 

const char*
gi_repository_get_typelib_path (
  GIRepository* repository,
  const char* namespace_
)

Description [src]

If namespace namespace_ is loaded, return the full path to the .typelib file it was loaded from.

If the typelib for namespace namespace_ was included in a shared library, return the special string <builtin>.

Available since: 2.80

Parameters

namespace_

Type: const char*

GI namespace to use, e.g. Gtk.

The data is owned by the caller of the method.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

Return value

Type: const char*

Filesystem path (or <builtin>) if successful, NULL if namespace is not loaded.

The returned data is owned by the instance.
The return value can be NULL.
The value is a platform-native string, using the preferred OS encoding on Unix and UTF-8 on Windows.