1. QOF dependencies.

• libxml2-dev >= 2.5.10

• libglib2.0-dev

That's it!

Glib is part of Gnome and is often mentioned in the same sentence as Gtk/Gtk+, but these are separate libraries and QOF has no Gtk dependency. One of the example programs can use Gtk if it is available.

Glib developer documentation. GLib is a general-purpose utility library, which provides many useful data types, macros, type conversions, string utilities, file utilities, a main loop abstraction, and so on. It works on many UNIX-like platforms, Windows, OS/2 and BeOS. GLib is released under the GNU Library General Public License

Reference Manual for libxml2. Libxml2 is the XML C parser and toolkit developed for the Gnome project (but usable outside of the Gnome platform), it is free software available under the MIT License.