# Part I. Introduction

Gtef is a library that eases the development of GtkSourceView-based text editors and IDEs. Gtef is the acronym for “GTK+ Text Editor Framework”.

See the Gtef website.

Gtef 2 depends on GTK+ 3 and GtkSourceView 3.

## pkg-config name

For Gtef 2, the pkg-config name is: `gtef-2`

To compile a program that uses Gtef 2, you can for example use the following command:

`$ gcc hello.c `pkg-config --cflags --libs gtef-2` -o hello`