---
name: "g-ir-inspect"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "gobject-introspection-bin"
version: "1.84.0-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/g-ir-inspect"
---

# g-ir-inspect(1)

Typelib inspection tool

## NAME

g-ir-inspect - Typelib inspection tool

## SYNOPSIS

```
g-ir-inspect [OPTION…] --print-shlibs NAMESPACE
g-ir-inspect [OPTION…] --print-typelibs NAMESPACE
```

## DESCRIPTION

**g-ir-inspect** displays information about GObject-Introspection binary typelib files. In GLib 2.80 and later versions, it is superseded by\
  \<[gi-inspect-typelib(1)](/gi-inspect-typelib/1.md)\> .

On Debian-derived systems, each architecture provides a version of **g-ir-inspect** prefixed with the *DEB\_HOST\_GNU\_TYPE* from [**dpkg-architecture**(1)](/dpkg-architecture/1.md), for example **arm-linux-gnueabihf-g-ir-inspect**. These architecture-prefixed names use appropriate search paths for the given architecture, and should be used when cross-compiling. Please see  \<file:///usr/share/doc/gobject-introspection/README.Debian.gz\>  for more details.

## OPTIONS

- **--print-shlibs**

  Show the shared libraries that implement the *NAMESPACE*.

- **--print-typelibs**

  Show the other typelibs that the *NAMESPACE* depends on.

- **--version *VERSION***

  The version of each *NAMESPACE* to inspect. For example, the version of **Gio-2.0.typelib** is **2.0**. If not specified, use the newest available version if there is more than one installed.

## EXAMPLE

On Linux, the **Gio-2.0** typelib is implemented by **libgio-2.0.so.0**:

```
$ g-ir-inspect --version 2.0 --print-shlibs Gio
shlib: libgio-2.0.so.0
```

and it depends on GObject-2.0, GLib-2.0 and GModule-2.0:

```
$ g-ir-inspect --version 2.0 --print-typelibs Gio
typelib: GObject-2.0
typelib: GLib-2.0
typelib: GModule-2.0
```