Dex – 1: Overview
Description: Reference for Dex-1: Overview

#### Overview

Dex is a GNOME library that provides deferred execution for GObject-based (including GTK) applications through the use of futures.

The library attempts to follow well established patterns and terminology around programming with futures.

Dex depends on modern releases of GLib 2.0, but can probably be made to support older versions depending if people show up to test it.

## pkg-config name

To build a program that uses Dex, you can use the following command to get the cflags and libraries necessary to compile and link.

    gcc hello.c `pkg-config --cflags --libs libdex-1` -o hello