using Gnome from a library

[Chris Kelly <samizdat tolstoy com>]

I want to call some routines in gnome-mime and gnome-mime-info from a C++
library. If Gnome is not running, I don't want to start it. How do I do this?

This is for possible inclusion in my JConfig library, which is part java
and part native code. Alternatively, is there a way for java to link to Gnome?

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