Is gdbus part of Bluez, glib, or neither?

Question

I'm following the advice of Zimano on using the Bluez client as an example to implement Bluetooth in my Linux application.

I have installed:

libbluetooth-dev
libglib2.0-dev
libdbus-1-dev

The Bluez client example uses a D-Bus helper library that is included as part of Bluez in a gdbus folder when the soure code is downloaded.

I have looked at it for a few hours and I think if I want to follow the Bluez client example, I need to add and compile the gdbus source from the Bluez source with my program. My question is, do I have that wrong? Is that gdbus included elsewhere? The naming is so close to files in glib-2.0/gio that I am concerned that I am missing something.

Looking at it a little more, I believe I need to build bluez from the source to get access to everything needed to implement something similar to the example. Will try that... — MrSnrub

nemequ nemequ · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-02T20:55:45

GDBus is part of GIO, which is distributed with GLib.

Based on the package names you've provided I'm guessing you are using a Debian-derived distribution, so libglib2.0-dev is the package you need.

Is gdbus part of Bluez, glib, or neither?

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