> On Nov 10, 2015, at 3:40 PM, Burton, Ross <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10 November 2015 at 23:10, Phil Blundell <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Why does gobject-introspection (presumably giscanner, right?) need to
> run binaries on the target at all?  I thought it operated mostly on the
> source code.
> 
> Same reason gtk-doc's scanner executes code: vast amounts of relevant 
> information can't reliably be extracted from source but is trivial to 
> introspect at runtime (GObject hierarchy, properties, signals, etc).

so its not truly cross build friendly, We should try to see if this can be fed 
in artificial information which can be stored in some config files, similar to 
autoconf caching IMO.

> 
> Ross
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