Usage:¶

valac [OPTION?] FILE... - Vala Compiler

Help Options:¶

-?, --help

Show help options

Application Options:¶

--vapidir=DIRECTORY...

Look for package bindings in DIRECTORY

--girdir=DIRECTORY...

Look for .gir files in DIRECTORY

--metadatadir=DIRECTORY...

Look for GIR .metadata files in DIRECTORY

--pkg=PACKAGE...

Include binding for PACKAGE

--vapi=FILE

Output VAPI file name

--library=NAME

Library name

--shared-library=NAME

Shared library name used in generated gir

--gir=NAME-VERSION.gir

GObject-Introspection repository file name

-b, --basedir=DIRECTORY

Base source directory

-d, --directory=DIRECTORY

Change output directory from current working directory

--version

Display version number

--api-version

Display API version number

-C, --ccode

Output C code

-H, --header=FILE

Output C header file

--use-header

Use C header file

--includedir=DIRECTORY

Directory used to include the C header file

-h, --internal-header=FILE

Output internal C header file

--internal-vapi=FILE

Output vapi with internal api

--fast-vapi

Output vapi without performing symbol resolution

--use-fast-vapi

Use --fast-vapi output during this compile

--vapi-comments

Include comments in generated vapi

--deps

Write make-style dependency information to this file

--depfile

Write make-style external dependency information for build systems to this file

--list-sources

Output a list of all source and binding files which are used

--symbols=FILE

Output symbols file

-c, --compile

Compile but do not link

-o, --output=FILE

Place output in file FILE

-g, --debug

Produce debug information

--thread

Enable multithreading support (DEPRECATED AND IGNORED)

--enable-mem-profiler

Enable GLib memory profiler

-D, --define=SYMBOL...

Define SYMBOL

--main=SYMBOL...

Use SYMBOL as entry point

--nostdpkg

Do not include standard packages

--disable-assert

Disable assertions

--enable-checking

Enable additional run-time checks

--enable-deprecated

Enable deprecated features

--hide-internal

Hide symbols marked as internal

--enable-experimental

Enable experimental features

--disable-warnings

Disable warnings

--fatal-warnings

Treat warnings as fatal

--disable-since-check

Do not check whether used symbols exist in local packages

-k, --keep-going

Continue as much as possible after an error

--enable-experimental-non-null

Enable experimental enhancements for non-null types

--enable-gobject-tracing

Enable GObject creation tracing

--cc=COMMAND

Use COMMAND as C compiler command

-X, --Xcc=OPTION...

Pass OPTION to the C compiler

--pkg-config=COMMAND

Use COMMAND as pkg-config command

--dump-tree=FILE

Write code tree to FILE

--save-temps

Keep temporary files

--profile=PROFILE

Use the given profile instead of the default

-q, --quiet

Do not print messages to the console

-v, --verbose

Print additional messages to the console

--no-color

Disable colored output, alias for --color=never

--color=WHEN

Enable color output, options are 'always', 'never', or 'auto'

--target-glib='MAJOR.MINOR', or 'auto'

Target version of glib for code generation

--gresources=FILE...

XML of gresources

--gresourcesdir=DIRECTORY...

Look for resources in DIRECTORY

--enable-version-header

Write vala build version in generated files

--disable-version-header

Do not write vala build version in generated files

--run-args

Arguments passed to directly compiled executable

--abi-stability

Enable support for ABI stability